# Starfish DRb Error

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starfish-drb-error/123885>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 21, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starfish-drb-error/123885 "2007-12-21T18:20:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![dale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@dale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dale)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starfish-drb-error/123885/1 "2007-12-21T18:20:54Z")

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I was trying to get starfish to work, but I get a DRb error every time  
I run starfish application (with or without a specified file).

Here is the output …

E:\projects\starfish\>starfish foo.rb  
e:\projects\cvsp\ruby\lib/drb.rb:398: undefined method `to_s' for class`DRb:😃  
RbObject’ (NameError)  
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:  
27:in `ge m_original_require' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 27:in`re  
quire’  
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/lib/  
map\_reduce.rb:1  
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:  
27:in `ge m_original_require' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 27:in`re  
quire’  
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/lib/  
starfish.rb:9  
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:  
27:in `ge m_original_require' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 27:in`re  
quire’  
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/bin/  
starfish:5  
from c:/ruby/bin/starfish:16:in `load’  
from c:/ruby/bin/starfish:16

foo.rb contains (taken from the starfish documentation):

# foo.rb

class Foo  
attr\_reader :i

def initialize  
@i = 0  
end

def inc  
logger.info “YAY it incremented by 1 up to #{@i}”  
@i += 1  
end  
end

server do |object|  
object = Foo.new  
end

client do |object|  
object.inc  
end

Any ideas on why I am getting the DRb error?

Thanks,  
Dale

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**Author:** ![dale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@dale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dale)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starfish-drb-error/123885/2 "2007-12-22T20:41:24Z")

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google for drb on windows–setup might be not as trivial as expected.