From: Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>
Date: 2012-09-03T20:53:52+09:00
Subject: Re: working on multiple machines in a LAN

On 3 September 2012 12:41, ajay paswan <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> How will we compare above technologies for my purpose? in terms of ease
> of implementation, scalable, efficient?

Well the question is really are any of the technologies sufficient for
your needs. It doesn't matter if technology X can scale to 10,000
workers but Y can only handle 1000 if you will have at most 20. How
efficient it is depends on the type of work the workers are doing. If
each job could take up to 5 hours then what does it matter if it takes
a minute or more to get or return work.

When I last did this I used XMLRPC and Perl and it worked over the
internet. It worked well enough for me. Before that I used a shared
directory on a LAN just as I mentioned in my first reply. This too
worked well enough.

I would implement the simplest solution and see how it goes.