From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2008-07-11T08:17:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Communication between 2 ruby programs

Julien Genestoux wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am having a hard time solving this issue and I'm sure you guys know
> how to treat that very easily!
> 
> I've got a "bot" on one side which runs :
> 
...

> 
> And on the other side, I've got a Rails application. I want to "plug"
> the bot to this rails application, in such a way that the inputs are
> coming from the Rails application, and not from STDIN.
> 


Have you considered using xml-rpc?  Ruby includes a library for that.

It has its pros and cons, but overall it may be good enough.

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