From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-09-25T02:54:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby  IPC: messaging, blackboard, etc.?

On Sep 24, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Logan Capaldo wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 07:03:53PM +0900, Dmitri Kondratiev wrote:
>> I am looking for Ruby crossplatform local and network IPC: messaging,
>> blackboard, etc. It would be great to find a survey of existing  
>> projects
>> in this area.
>> Things I am most interested in:
>> 1) Distributed blackboard or any other publish/subscribe mechanism  
>> that
>> scales well with new nodes comming into play
>> 2) Messaging system that will allow address messages to
>> thread@process.host
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Dima
>>
> I think your first step would be to look into drb (distributed ruby)
> which comes with ruby.

#1 is a request for Rinda's Tuplespace built on DRb and also comes  
with Ruby.  The Ruby Cookbook shows example usage for this.

I didn't understand #2.

James Edward Gray II