From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-01-15T10:36:51+09:00
Subject: Re: drb question


<m_seki@mva.biglobe.ne.jp> wrote in message

> Please try either of the followings.
>
> (a) initialize DRb, in drb_client.rb. (recommend)
>
> | require 'drb'
> | STDOUT.sync = true
> | DRb.start_service
> |
> | cliObj = DRbObject.new(nil,"druby://localhost:5555")
> |
> | 5.times { |i| puts cliObj.time_now; sleep(2); }
> |
> | cliObj.bye


Ok, did that !


> (b) patch drb/drb.rb.
>
> --- drb.rb      27 Dec 2002 23:28:25 -0000      1.92
> +++ drb.rb      14 Jan 2003 21:24:03 -0000
> @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@
>         @uri, option = DRbProtocol.uri_option(uri, DRb.config)
>         @ref = DRbURIOption.new(option) unless option.nil?
>        else
> -       @uri = uri ? uri : DRb.uri
> +       @uri = uri ? uri : (DRb.uri rescue nil)
>         @ref = obj ? DRb.to_id(obj) : nil
>        end
>      end
>

Skipped this patch initially ... did not want to do it until necessary.

> (c) return nil (TstSrvr#bye)
>
> |    def bye(msg="")
> |        puts msg
> |        Thread.new { sleep(1); exit(1) }
> |        nil
> |    end

Did that, and yes now it is working like I wanted it to !

Thanks a lot.

I also tried the patch independently and of course,  it worked too. But I
did not move it in our production environment.

I will let you decide if it needs to be refactored into your source.

Again thanks for the prompt help.

-- shanko