From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-01-30T10:00:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby IPC

On Jan 27, 2006, at 6:53 PM, Marc Soda wrote:

> I'm very new to Ruby, so excuse me if this is a newbie question.   
> I've can't
> seem to find much information on different types of IPC in Ruby.

Usually IPC in Ruby is performed via high-level constructs rather  
than sockets, pipes and shared memory.

> I realize there's sockets, but what about shared memory,

http://moulon.inra.fr/ruby/mmap.html

> message queues, semaphores, etc.

Typically implemented via Distributed Ruby sharing a Queue or other  
objects from thread.rb (both part of the standard library).

http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/drb/

> I found an extention library, sysvipc, is this it?

sysvipc sounds like a wrapper for System V IPC.  You should be able  
to find lots of documentation with a Google search.

I recommend you check out DRb, it makes IPC much more sane.

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