Part 1: Standard Library

  Chapter 1: Distributed Ruby (DRb)
          1.1 Hello World
          1.2 Proprietary Ruby Objects
          1.3 Security
            1.3.1 Access Control Lists (ACLs)
            1.3.2 DRb Over SSL
          1.4 ID Conversion
            1.4.1 Built-in ID Converters
            1.4.1.1 DRb::DRbIdConv
            1.4.1.2 DRb::TimerIdConv
            1.4.2 Building your own ID Converter
            1.4.3 Using Multiple ID Converters
          1.5 Conclusion

  Chapter 2: Rinda
          2.1 Hello World, the Rinda Way
            2.1.1 Ring Server
          2.2 Understanding Tuples and TupleSpaces
            2.2.1 Writing a Tuple to a TupleSpace
            2.2.2 Reading a Tuple from a TupleSpace
            2.2.3 Taking a Tuple from a TupleSpace
            2.2.4 Reading All Tuples in a TupleSpace
          2.3 Callbacks and Observers
            2.3.1 Understanding Callbacks
            2.3.2 Implementing Callbacks
          2.4 Security With Rinda
            2.4.1 Access Control Lists (ACLs)
            2.4.2 Using Rinda Over SSL
            2.4.3 Selecting a Ring Server
          2.5 Renewing Rinda Services
            2.5.1 Using a Numeric to Renew a Service
            2.5.2 Using nil to Renew a Service
            2.5.3 Using the SimpleRenewer class
            2.5.4 Building a Custom Renewer
          2.6 Conclusion
  
Part 2: Third Party Frameworks and Libraries
  
  Chapter 3: Starfish
          3.1 Installation
          3.2 Getting Started with Starfish
          3.3 Hello World, the Starfish Way
            3.3.1 Using the Starfish Binary
            3.3.1 Saying Goodbye to the Starfish Binary
          3.4 Building a Distributed Logger with Starfish
          3.5 Letting Starfish Shine
          3.6 Conclusion
  Chapter 4: RingyDingy
          4.1 Installation
          4.2 Getting Started with RingyDingy
          4.3 Hello World, the RingyDingy Way
          4.4 Building a Distributed Logger with RingyDingy
          4.5 Letting RingyDingy Shine
          4.6 Conclusion
  Chapter 5: Distribunaut
  Chapter 6: Politics
          6.1 Installation
          6.2 Token Workers
          6.3 Conclusion
  Chapter 7: Vertebra

  
Part 3: Distributed Message Queues

  Chapter 8: Starling
          8.1 What is a Distributed Message Queue?
          8.2 Installation
          8.3 Getting Started with Starling
          8.4 Hello World, the Starling Way
          8.5 Building a Distributed Logger with Starling
          8.6 Persisted Queues
          8.7 Getting Starling Stats
          8.8 Conclusion
  Chapter 9: AMQP/RabbitMQ
          9.1 What is AMQP?
          9.2 Installation
          9.3 Hello World, the AMQP Way
          9.4 Building a Distributed Logger with AMQP
          9.5 Persisted AMQP Queues
          9.6 Subscribing to a Message Queue
          9.7 Topic Queues
          9.8 Fanout Queues
          9.9 Conclusion
  Chapter 10: Nanite

Part 4: Distributed Programming with Ruby on Rails

  Chapter 11: BackgrounDRb
  Chapter 12: Workling