From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-02-19T10:13:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does drb.rb depend on its filename?

On Feb 18, 2006, at 4:53 PM, Jay Levitt wrote:

> 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.

It would be easier to tell you with an example.

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