Connect to DRb server from rails controller?

I haven’t done any DRb stuff in awhile, but I used to connect to a DRb
server from
a rails controller. I’ve never tried it in rails 3 and am wondering if
Rails 3 is stricter about something like this or why it hasn’t worked
thus far.

My server/client code and error are shown below:

SERVER:

require ‘drb’

class ParserSvc

def initialize

end

def check
return ‘ok’
end

end

svc = ParserSvc.new

DRb.start_service ‘druby://:9000’, svc
puts “Server running at #{DRb.uri}”

trap(“INT”) { DRb.stop_service }
DRb.thread.join


Client code in application controller:

require ‘drb’

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
protect_from_forgery

def parser_svc
# svc = nil
svc = DRbObject.new nil, ‘druby://:9000’
svc
end

end

main controller:

def pcheck
svc = parser_svc
res = svc.check
render :text => res

end

when called and server is running get this error:

DRb::DRbConnError (druby://:9000 - #<Errno::EADDRNOTAVAIL: The
requested address
is not valid in its context. - connect(2)>):
app/controllers/main_controller.rb:15:in `pcheck’