On 11/28/06, Daniel Berger <djberg96 / gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Tim Pease wrote:
> > On 11/28/06, ara.t.howard / noaa.gov <ara.t.howard / noaa.gov> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Tim Pease wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does Slave work on the Win32 platform, or is this a UNIX only gem?
> > >
> > > in all seriousness i'd be happy if it could be made to work - have a look and
> > > let me know what you think if you get a chance.
> > >
> >
> > I think Daniel Berger is your man for getting this to work on Windows.
> >  Just one of those things that would be "nice to have" in the future.
>
> It's probably doable, but I'll have to look at the source code.
>
> I don't know much about slave, but one question I have right off the
> bat is why you would want one drb server per object, instead of just
> one drb server that stored objects in a hash table that you could push
> and pop at will.  Maybe I need to go back and see Ara's use case for
> this...
>

Slave forks off a ruby object in a separate process and then uses DRb
for communication between the processes.  Each forked process has its
own DRb server.

TwP