From 3239ea29bd0ae7ee2f1f1bd50936c9844ed6ca55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Schneider <sschneider@puppetlabs.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:31:17 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Send graphite data from within a thread

...so that if it fails, it doesn't kill our whole processing thread
---
 lib/graphite.rb | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/graphite.rb b/lib/graphite.rb
index 29c8816..b52e011 100755
--- a/lib/graphite.rb
+++ b/lib/graphite.rb
@@ -8,9 +8,11 @@ class Graphite
   end
 
   def log path, value
-    socket = TCPSocket.new(@server, 2003)
-    socket.puts "#{path} #{value} #{Time.now.to_i}"
-    socket.close
+    Thread.new {
+      socket = TCPSocket.new(@server, 2003)
+      socket.puts "#{path} #{value} #{Time.now.to_i}"
+      socket.close
+    }
   end
 end