drctrl

A local control for DRb service.

This gem provides a local dRuby service for control purposes and a command line tool for it.

Usage

At server side

require 'drctrl'

DRCtrl.start_service do
  # some finalize code
end

. . . . .


DRCtrl.wait

This code creates object with methods stop and restart. And it starts a dRuby service at unix-socket /tmp/<appname>-<pid>.

Use DRCtrl.wait instead DRb.thread.join for correct stopping.

At client side

Use a command line tool drctrl or your own code with require 'drctrl/client'.

drctrl find appropriate dRuby server and send to it command and arguments.

drctrl [<options>] <command> [<args>]
    -U, --uri=URI
    -P, --path=PATH
    -N, --name=NAME
    -I, --pid=PID

There is required to set one of options: --uri (any dRuby URI), --path (a path to unix-socket), or --name (name of controlled app).