From: Mikkel Bruun <mikkel.bruun@...>
Date: 2001-11-27T16:09:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26623] Re: more than one object in a druby server?

tuplespace seems very nice...

is it implemented in drb now?? 

Mikkel 

-----Original Message-----
From: ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: 26-11-2001 23:47
Subject: [ruby-talk:26565] Re: more than one object in a druby server?

In article <m2d72iytr2.fsf@zip.local.thomases.com>,
Dave Thomas  <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
>Tobias DiPasquale <anany@ece.vill.edu> writes:
>
>> P.S. Would 'rinda' be any help? If so, what is 'rinda'? Sounds like
it 
>> might be the thing, but can't find any docs on it. (don't speak
Japanese)
>
>You can look up tuplespaces on Google, and there is a simple test in
>the drb distribution itself.
>
>I'm amazed and the Ruby tuplespace implementation: the matching is
>based on '===', so you can have message patterns like
>
>   [ 'Dave', nil, /cat/ ]
>        - match messages with a first parameter of Dave and the third
>          parameter containing the string 'cat'
>
>   [ 1..10, String ]
>        - match messages with the first parameter between 1 and 10 and
>          the second of class String.
>
>It works nicely too: I wrote a simple P-P chat server in about 10
>lines of code.

Dave,

Do you still have this P-P chat server code around?  Do you mind
sharing? 
;-)

Phil