#from http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/drb/rinda/ringserver.html #!/usr/bin/env ruby -w # rindas.rb # rindas modified to find the TupleSpace via a RingServer require 'rinda/ring' def do_it(v) puts "do_it(#{v})" v + v end DRb.start_service ring_server = Rinda::RingFinger.primary ts = ring_server.read([:name, :TupleSpace, nil, nil])[2] ts = Rinda::TupleSpaceProxy.new ts loop do r = ts.take(['sum', nil, nil]) v = do_it(r[2]) ts.write(['ans', r[1], r[2], v]) end