From: Chris Carter <cdcarter@...>
Date: 2007-05-14T05:01:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Distributed Computing in Ruby

On 5/13/07, Marcin Raczkowski <swistak@mailx.expro.pl> wrote:
> On Sunday 13 May 2007 12:54, Brian Candler wrote:
> > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 07:05:29PM +0900, Marcin Raczkowski wrote:
> > > DRb - Distributed Ruby
> > > i think that answers your question, read pickaxe, read documentation on
> > > DRb - there're links to tutorials - especially segment7 - they are hard
> > > to understand but ... well they are :D
> >
> > There's also http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/DRbTutorial
> >
> > But DRb by itself is just remote procedure calls. A full distributed
> > computing environment may expect more than that (hence Rinda)
>
> RINDA is preatty much just one class that lets you find other DRb services.
>
> --
> Marcin Raczkowski
> ---
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> Enemies Teach what you have to know
>
>

Rinda also gives you a nice tuplespace class!  Don't underestimate a tuplespace

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