From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T02:28:23+09:00
Subject: Re: drb_fork

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> 
> can anyone think of a more elegant way to do this:
> 
>   ~ > cat drb_fork.rb
>   require 'drb/drb'
> 
>   def drb_fork obj
>     pipe = IO.pipe
>     fork do
>       pipe[0].close
>       pipe = pipe[1]
>       DRb.start_service nil, obj
>       pipe.write DRb.uri
>       pipe.close
>       DRb.thread.join
>     end
>     pipe[1].close
>     pipe = pipe[0]
>     uri = pipe.read
>     DRb.start_service nil, nil rescue nil
>     DRbObject.new nil, uri
>   end
> 
>   a = drb_fork []
>   a << 42
>   p a.first
> 
> 
>   ~ > ruby drb_fork.rb
>   42

Maybe this:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/detach/

I've never used it, but it looks interesting. (I suspect it does the 
same as you do, though.)