Re: php/ruby drb adapter

Hello, on 01/14/2010 12:51 PM Pete Yadlowsky said the following: > I'll be honest: php is not my favorite programming language. That honor > goes to ruby. And I don't mean ruby-on-rails; just straight, pure > unfettered ruby. I use ruby to write web applications and just about > everything else. > > However, there are obviously very many web applications and webapp > frameworks written in php. I have recently taken an interest in eyeOS > (http://eyeos.org/), with the intent to hack eyeOS to use a certain ruby > back-end file service I've written instead of accessing the local file > system directly. This ruby service communicates with clients via ruby's > native "distributed ruby" (DRb) facility. DRb makes it marvelously easy > to write distributed multi-threaded services, provided the clients are > written in ruby as well. > > But what if the client is written in, say, php? Wouldn't it be nice if a > php client could access DRb-driven ruby services just as simply as a > ruby client can? Not finding any such existing facility, I've written a > php object class, "DRbClient". This class invokes object methods offered > by the remote ruby service, passing strings, integers, floats, booleans, > nulls, and/or arrays as arguments, and accepts a return value of any of > those same types. All data translation and inter-process communication > is transparent. It's just as if a local object instance is being > messaged directly. > > If there's interest, I'd like to offer DRbClient to the php community, > but I'm not sure how to go about that. If that is based in a class written in PHP, you may want to submit it to PHPClasses.org . It has hundreds of thousands of registered users eager to learn about new PHP classes. http://www.phpclasses.org/ As for distributing processing over multiple threads running eventually on different machines, that sounds more like a job for Gearman. http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/108-Distributing-PHP-processing-with-Gearman.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Find and post PHP jobs http://www.phpclasses.org/jobs/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/