# Thread safety resources **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 10, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thread-safety-resources/155352 "2008-12-10T23:19:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tjholowaychuk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@tjholowaychuk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tjholowaychuk)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thread-safety-resources/155352/1 "2008-12-10T23:19:31Z")
What would you consider the cleanest, yet effective way to produce thread-safe libraries? any tips or suggestions for a Ruby newb would be fantastic ---
**Author:** ![tjholowaychuk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@tjholowaychuk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tjholowaychuk)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thread-safety-resources/155352/2 "2008-12-10T23:31:41Z")
Tj Holowaychuk wrote: > What would you consider the cleanest, yet effective way to produce > thread-safe libraries? any tips or suggestions for a Ruby newb would be > fantastic Does your library use threads itself, or do you just want your library to be callable from multiple threads? ---
**Author:** ![tjholowaychuk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@tjholowaychuk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tjholowaychuk)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thread-safety-resources/155352/3 "2008-12-10T23:48:49Z")
Im not talking about any one library specifically, but I suppose both would certainly be good to learn. I have been looking through the standard library and others trying to discover consistent / clean conventions but I have seen a few variants and I am not quite sure about the ideal way to create thread safety within the library itself as well as execution from within threads like you mentioned