From: Paul Brannan <paul@...>
Date: 2001-12-07T02:45:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27715] Re: marshalling (incompatible marshal file format)

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:07:49AM +0900, Hugo Garcia wrote:
> Has CORBA been implemented using Ruby?

There is "Rinn", which is compatible with Orbit.  Rinn does not support
IIOP, though (only UIOP, I think), so you can't use it over TCP/IP at
the moment.  At the Rinn page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rinn/) is
also Ruby-Orbit, which I think is a Ruby wrapper for Orbit?

One idea I had for getting CORBA to work with Ruby was to use
ruby-python to talk to the python wrapper for Omniorb.  Every time I get
an exception, though, the program seems to crash (I think it's trying to
throw a C++ exception across C code, though I'm not sure).  Omniorb also
uses pthreads (which don't work well with Ruby), so I doubt it would
work well (if at all) anyway.

A final option I considered was trying to get JRuby to work with JacORB.
I'm not sure I feel adventurous enough to try today, though.

Paul