From: harryo@... (Harry Ohlsen)
Date: 2001-04-23T06:40:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14038] Re: Distributed Ruby and heterogeneous networks

>In my experience you should be running the same version of Ruby and the 
>same version of DRb on both client and server.  DRb is very dependent on 
>marshalling (serialization) and it seems that the way certain types of 
>objects are marshelled changes in some of the newer versions of Ruby.

Thanks, Phill.  That's going to cause me a minor problem, since I want
to run the server on Windows 2000 and clients on various *NIX boxes.

The reason that's a problem is that, as far as I know, there's no
easily installable version of 1.7 for Windows and I'd prefer not to go
backwards on my Linux boxes.

Oh well, I didn't waste much time on it, because DRb is so nicely
written that it only took about three lines of code in the server and
the client to get my application going and, as has been my experience
with most Ruby code, it worked as soon as I got my syntax correct.

I just love this language!