Ruby Thread-safe hash delegation

A thread-safe Hash that delegates all its methods to a real hash

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
#!/usr/local/ruby -w

require 'rubygems'
require 'facet/basicobject'   # for the BasicObject class
require 'thread'              # for the Mutex class

# A thread-safe Hash that delegates all its methods to a real hash

class ThreadsafeHash < BasicObject
   def initialize (*args, &block)
      @hash = Hash.new(*args, &block) # The shared hash
      @lock = Mutex.new               # For thread safety
   end

   def method_missing(method, *args, &block)
      if @hash.respond_to? method  # Forward Hash method calls...
         @lock.synchronize do     # but wrap them in a thread safe lock
            @hash.send(method, *args, &block)
         end
      else
         super
      end
   end
end