From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-12-06T13:51:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27602] Sending a Proc to a remote dRuby object

I'm trying to send a proc to a dRuby object running on a remote machine 
and then call that proc...

Here's what I'm got on the 'server' (the remote machine):
#---------------------REMOTE-----------------------------
class TestServer

   def run(&procObj)
     puts "got a: #{procObj.type}"
     procObj.call 
   end

end
require "drb/drb"
ts = TestServer.new
primary = DRb::DRbServer.new("druby://localhost:5555", ts)
puts "TestServer started"
primary.thread.join
#---------------------------------------------------------

And here's what I'm running on the local machine:

# ----------- local ------------
require "drb/drb"
primary = DRb::DRbServer.new
ts = DRb::DRbObject.new(nil, ARGV.shift)
#try sending a proc:
ts.run { puts "running the Proc" }
#---------------------------------


On the remote machine I get:

=>TestServer started
=>got a: Proc

So it gets the Proc, but the call of the Proc seems to do nothing...
(I would expect to see on the remote machine: "running a Proc" in addition 
to the above).

Is it even possible to pass a Proc to a remote dRuby object like this?

Phil