From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-07-11T09:29:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Communication between 2 ruby programs

On Jul 10, 2008, at 14:52 PM, Julien Genestoux wrote:

> 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 :
>
> class Bot
>
> def self.start
>   loop do
>     input = gets # Get a user input from STDIN
>     # do some stuff with the input!
>   end
> end
>
> Bot:start
>
> end
>
> 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.
>
> I guess that it doesn't change anything that my "client" is a rails  
> app,
> but I mentionned it in case it's bad in any way ;-) Also, the
> communication is just "one-way"; there is no need for the bot to  
> return
> anything to the client!
>
> Any idea on how to solve this?

The RailsRemoteControl gem may be a good start.