ruby thread and gets

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Hi all
I'm trying to run two thread at one time in a program.
And one of them will receive user inputting msgs by gets().
another one will do something else at the same time.
they don't communicate each other.

like this :

thread_a = Thread.new{
loop do
puts "please enter blah blah"
msg = gets
#do something
end
}
thread_a.join
thread_b = Thread.new{
loop do
#do other things maybe puts "im running im running
......"
end

}
thread_b.join

but when thread_a runs gets waiting for user input, whole program will be
paused waiting for this, I mean thread_b will not working.
How can I handle this ?
Do I have to do this by running multi process?

.

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