# What's "new" in drb?

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-drb/59316 "2006-05-03T18:56:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hal_F)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-drb/59316/1 "2006-05-03T18:56:58Z")

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What’s “new” in distributed Ruby? And by “new” I mean  
less than five years old. 😉

Hal

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**Author:** ![Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hal_F)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-new-in-drb/59316/2 "2006-05-03T18:58:20Z")

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On Apr 30, 2006, at 5:45 PM, Hal F. wrote:

> What’s “new” in distributed Ruby? And by “new” I mean less than  
> five years old. 😉

This weekend I made DRb work using YAML serialization [1] (but  
haven’t released the code yet) and wrote a TupleSpace replicator [2].

I’ve added RDoc to Rinda (TupleSpace, RingServer and friends) so 1.8.4

- have it now. I don’t know if they’re less than five years old  
though, but certainly they’re worth a mention [3].

Nathaniel T. released a firewall-tunneling tool for DRb called  
DRbFire [4].

[1] [http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2006/04/30/drb-via-yaml](http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2006/04/30/drb-via-yaml)  
[2] [http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2006/04/29/tuplespace-replicator](http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2006/04/29/tuplespace-replicator)  
[3] [http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/drb/rinda/ringserver.html](http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/drb/rinda/ringserver.html)  
[4] [http://rubyforge.org/projects/drbfire](http://rubyforge.org/projects/drbfire)

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Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://blog.segment7.net](http://blog.segment7.net)  
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