From: Kevin Brown <blargity@...>
Date: 2005-08-26T13:49:59+09:00
Subject: DRb functions disappearing?

I will start by admitting I'm new to Ruby, but am generally a quick learner.  
Anyway, I put together a simple DRb test program which works fine.  I'm now 
trying to do the real thing, where I need a graphical front end to 
communicate with a backend on localhost for the moment, but eventually, on 
another machine.

My problem is that the functions seem to disappear.  If the code in my class 
is like below:

    DRb.start_service()
    @connection = DRbObject.new(nil, 'druby://localhost:9000')
    @connection.login

I get the following output:

(druby://localhost:9000) /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1478:in `login': wrong 
number of arguments (0 for 1) (ArgumentError)
        from ./dli-frontend.rb:33:in `initialize'
        from ./dli-frontend.rb:62:in `new'
        from ./dli-frontend.rb:62

Which is correct.  login takes one argument.  I then supply the argument with:

    DRb.start_service()
    @connection = DRbObject.new(nil, 'druby://localhost:9000')
    user = User.new
    @connection.login(user)

Here's the output:

(druby://localhost:9000) ./db/db.rb:999:in `login': undefined method `login' 
for #<DRb::DRbUnknown:0xb72c2fec> (NoMethodError)
        from (druby://localhost:9000) ./listener.rb:31:in `login'
        from ./dli-frontend.rb:33:in `initialize'
        from ./dli-frontend.rb:62:in `new'
        from ./dli-frontend.rb:62

If there's more info I need to provide, please let me know...  Otherwise, any 
ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?