From: Jilani Khaldi <jilanik@...>
Date: 2000-12-31T18:57:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8388] DRB doesn't work on Win 2000.

Hi All,

> 2. Ruby's flexibility
> 
>   Try it.  Server side.
> 
>     require 'drb'
> 
>     class TestServer
>       def doit
>         "Hello, Distributed World"
>       end
>     end
> 
>     aServerObject = TestServer.new
>     DRb.start_service('druby://localhost:9000', aServerObject)
>     DRb.thread.join # Don't exit just yet!
> 
>   And Client side.
> 
>     require 'drb'
>     DRb.start_service()
>     obj = DRbObject.new(nil, 'druby://localhost:9000')
>     # Now use obj
>     p obj.doit
>     p obj.instance_eval { p `cat /etc/passwd` }
Works on Linux but not on NT. I get this list of errors:

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Versione 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-1999 Microsoft Corp.

D:\>cd ruby

D:\ruby>ruby k.rb
D:/ruby/lib/drb.rb:1:in `require': D:/ruby/lib/drb/drb.rb:202: parse
error (SyntaxError)
    @@acl = nil
     ^
D:/ruby/lib/drb/drb.rb:203: parse error
    @@idconv = DRbIdConv.new
     ^
D:/ruby/lib/drb/drb.rb:204: parse error
    @@secondary_server = nil
     ^
D:/ruby/lib/drb/drb.rb:205: parse error
    @@argc_limit = 256
     ^
D:/ruby/lib/drb/drb.rb:206: parse error
    @@load_limit = 256 * 1024
     ^
D:/ruby/lib/drb/drb.rb:209: parse error
      @@argc_limit = argc
       ^
D:/ruby/lib/drb/drb.rb:213: parse error
      @@load_limit = sz
       ^
D:/ruby/lib/drb/drb.rb:217: parse error
      @@acl = acl
       ^
D:/ruby/lib/drb/drb.rb:221: parse error
      @@idconv = idconv
       ^
D:/ruby/lib/drb/drb.rb:232: parse error
      @acl = acl || @@acl
                     ^
D:/ruby/lib/drb/drb.rb:233: parse error
      @idconv = idconv || @@idconv
                           ^
D:/ruby/lib/drb/drb.rb:234: parse error
      @argc_limit = @@argc_limit
                     ^
D:/ruby/lib/drb/drb.rb:235: parse error
      @load_limit = @@load_limit
                     ^
        from D:/ruby/lib/drb.rb:1
        from k.rb:1:in `require'
        from k.rb:1
How to make it work?

Thanks.

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