require 'thread' # one producer, many consumers n = 1_000_000 m = 10 q = Thread::SizedQueue.new(100) consumers = m.times.map do Thread.new do while q.pop # consuming end end end producer = Thread.new do while n > 0 q.push true n -= 1 end m.times { q.push nil } end producer.join consumers.each(&:join)