From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2005-01-29T07:55:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Distributed Hash in Ruby?

Eric Hodel ha scritto:
> On 27 Jan 2005, at 06:30, martinus wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anyone ever implemented a distributed hash protool (like e.g. Chord
>> http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/chord/) in Ruby? I could not find anything
>> like this in RAA.
> 
> 
> Ruby has a Linda-like TupleSpace built-in from Rinda.
> 
> While I don't have an explicit example, one is used as part of the 
> example code here:
> 
> http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/drb/rinda/ringserver.html
> 

I think what he's looking for is quite different from TupleSpaces.
I think it is more similar to overnet/emule-kademlia (actually I think 
thos were built on chord's concepts).

the idea is to be able to access a file/object based on a standard hash 
withouth the need to traverse a complex peer graph, using a distributed 
partially replicated hash table.
Related to this, I guess building bindings for the emule base libraries 
would be the path of less resistence.