From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-12-01T00:56:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27081] Re: Can someone explain TupleSpaces?

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Jim Freeze wrote:

> > Its very cool. I used it in a small X@home application for distributing
> > execution on a network of PC's. Its very cool and few lines thanks to Ruby
> > and Drb/rinda. The latter is still among the coolest Ruby apps there is,
> > IMHO.
> 
> This sounds like what I am looking for. I need
> a simple way to distributed jobs to multiple machines.
> Where to I find information on Drb/rinda. I checked the
> RAA and rubycentral but came up empty.
> 
Check out: 
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=druby+-+distributed+ruby

There are some simple examples of using TupleSpaces in the tarball.

/RobertF