On 8/30/06, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel / path.berkeley.edu> wrote: > Phil Tomson wrote: > ... > > #client: > > require 'msgqueue' > > require 'drb' > > > > DRb.start_service() > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > This will request a free port from the OS, so that the client can > respond to requests from the server. (DRb is really pretty symmetrical.) > A request to the client is generated when, for example, the client calls > a method with a block, and the server yields to the block. > but doesn't this tell it to use port 9759?: mq = DRbObject.new(nil, 'druby://localhost:9759') Phil