From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-16T12:12:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7382] Re: sending messages from Perl to Druby

ptkwt@user2.teleport.com (Phil Tomson) writes:

> So, now I'm thinking that I could write the testcase distributor (its a
> system that will distribute testcases to several machines and track their
> progress) in Ruby and somehow communicate with it from perl.  Any ideas as
> to how I might compose and pass messages from the Perl script to the Druby
> objects?  I suspect this would be possible.

You could use XML, or CORBA, or transport XML over HTTP and make the test
distributor a special-purpose web-server (arguing that this would get
over potential firewall issues).

Dave