From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2006-02-19T09:53:29+09:00
Subject: Why does drb.rb depend on its filename?

I was creating my first DRb server, and ran into a trouble with ACLs.  I
wanted to put a debug statement into DRb::Accept, so I copied it to my
directory, renamed it jrb.rb, and required it with the new name.  But when
I did that, I got an error at launch:

....jrb.rb:1047: undefined method `to_s' for class `DRb::DRbObject'
(NameError)

And the same error happened when I left jrb.rb in /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8.
So it's not the path - it's the filename.

What's going on?  It works fine when run as drb.rb.

Jay Levitt