# drb.rb

Path: | drb/drb.rb
Last Update: | Sat Oct 15 23:44:28 AUS Eastern Standard Time 2005

# drb/drb.rb

Distributed Ruby: dRuby version 2.0.4

Copyright © 1999-2003 Masatoshi SEKI. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Ruby.

Author: | Masatoshi SEKI
Documentation: | William Webber (william@williamwebber.com)

## Overview

dRuby is a distributed object system for Ruby. It allows an object in one Ruby process to invoke methods on an object in another Ruby process on the same or a different machine.

The Ruby standard library contains the core classes of the dRuby package. However, the full package also includes access control lists and the Rinda tuple-space distributed task management system, as well as a large number of samples. The full dRuby package can be downloaded from the dRuby home page (see References).

For an introduction and examples of usage see the documentation to the DRb module.

## References

www2a.biglobe.ne.jp/~seki/ruby/druby.html
  The dRuby home page, in Japanese. Contains the full dRuby package and links to other Japanese-language sources.
www2a.biglobe.ne.jp/~seki/ruby/druby.en.html
  The English version of the dRuby home page.
www.chadfowler.com/ruby/drb.html
  A quick tutorial introduction to using dRuby by Chad Fowler.
www.linux-mag.com/2002-09/ruby_05.html
  A tutorial introduction to dRuby in Linux Magazine by Dave Thomas. Includes a discussion of Rinda.
www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/dRuby/
  Links to English-language Ruby material collected by Hugh Sasse.
www.rubycentral.com/book/ospace.html
  The chapter from Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt which discusses dRuby.
www.clio.ne.jp/home/web-i31s/Flotuard/Ruby/PRC2K_seki/dRuby.en.html
  Translation of presentation on Ruby by Masatoshi Seki.

### Required files

socket thread fcntl drb/eq drb/invokemethod drb/invokemethod16

### Constants

DRbObject | = | DRb::DRbObject
DRbUndumped | = | DRb::DRbUndumped
DRbIdConv | = | DRb::DRbIdConv

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