From: Marcin Raczkowski <mailing.mr@...>
Date: 2007-12-31T00:31:36+09:00
Subject: Re: how does drb work

Marc Heiler wrote:
>> Please look at the documentation.  There is a complete example that
>> explains this.  The Pickaxe is also a good source of information.
> 
> Well I have the pickaxe, several examples too and use drb optionally to 
> trigger
> compiling and installing packages ... but for some reason, after some 
> time of not using anything of that... i forget almost everything I read 
> before about it.
> 
> drb usage is either not easy enough IMHO, or underdocumented. What's 
> also unfortunate is that ... are there other ways for "distributed" ruby 
> like in a local LAN?

DRb documentation is mostly either bad, or for experts.

Basically DRb.start_service should be used for either starting client or 
server - which is strange already.

now run DRbServer.new("strange://usrl", object) starts drb server.

and @object = SRbObject.new(nil, "strange://url") creates object in client

now each method call to @object is marshaled and sent to DRBServer, 
where it's executed, and results is again marshaled and sent back.

have phun