From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-01-25T19:59:57+09:00
Subject: Re: inter-platform communication

Farrel Lifson wrote:
> On 25/01/07, tiberiu.motoc@gmail.com <tiberiu.motoc@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to find a new way to achieve inter-platform communication.
>> I'm currently using web services to pass data between a Solaris
>> machine, a Windows machine and a Linux machine. I would like to find
>> out if ruby can help me out in any way. Does ruby implement any RMI
>> system? Does it have SOAP+WSDL capabilities?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tiberiu
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Have a look at dRb (distributed Ruby). It's in the standard library.
> It does not have SOAP/WSDL capabilities as far as I know, it uses a
> Ruby specific protocol.
If you need XML-RPC or SOAP, then they're both in the standard library too.

-- 
Alex