Intro to DRb Ruby

Intro to DRb: "So, what is this DRb thing and why should you be interested? DRb literally stands for 'Distributed Ruby'. It is a library that allows you to send and receive messages from remote Ruby objects via TCP/IP. Sound kind of like RPC, CORBA or Java's RMI? Probably so. This is Ruby's simple as dirt answer to all of the above. "