rails drb factory

rails_factory.rb

require 'config/environment'
require 'drb'

DRBURI = "druby://0.0.0.0:6666" #"drbunix://#{File.join(Dir.pwd,'socket')}"

# NOTE: A dRuby reference to an object is not sufficient
# prevention from garbage collection!
class RailsFactory

  def initialize
    User.extend DRbUndumped
  end

  def model(model_name)
    # Object.const_get(model_name)
    model_name.constantize.extend DRbUndumped
  end

  def user
    User
  end

  def all_user_count
    User.all.count
  end

  def log m
    p m
  end

end

$SAFE = 1 # disable eval() and friends

p "DRBURI: #{DRBURI}\n"

DRb.start_service(DRBURI, RailsFactory.new)
DRb.thread.join


# # # # # # # # # # # # #
# client something like #
# # # # # # # # # # # # #

# require 'drb'
# SERVER_URI="druby://127.0.0.1:6666"
# factory = DRbObject.new_with_uri(SERVER_URI)
# factory.log "w00t!"
# u = factory.user
# u.all.count
# u.all.count #note: first works, second does:
# #NoMethodError: undefined method `count' for #<DRb::DRbUnknown:0x007fb4ec00fe58>
# u.count #note: seems to always work.
# factory.all_user_count
# r = factory.model 'Role'
# r.count