Class: Akephalos::RemoteClient

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/akephalos/remote_client.rb

Overview

The RemoteClient class provides an interface to an Akephalos::Client isntance on a remote DRb server.

Usage

client = Akephalos::RemoteClient.new
client.visit "http://www.oinopa.com"
client.page.source # => "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC..."

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.new ⇒ Object

Starts a remote akephalos server and returns the remote Akephalos::Client instance.



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# File 'lib/akephalos/remote_client.rb', line 22

def self.new
  start!
  DRb.start_service
  client = DRbObject.new_with_uri("drbunix://#{@socket_file}")
  # We want to share our local configuration with the remote server
  # process, so we share an undumped version of our configuration. This
  # lets us continue to make changes locally and have them reflected in the
  # remote process.
  client.configuration = Akephalos.configuration.extend(DRbUndumped)
  client
end

.start! ⇒ Object

Start a remote server process, returning when it is available for use.



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# File 'lib/akephalos/remote_client.rb', line 36

def self.start!
  remote_client = fork do
    exec("#{Akephalos::BIN_DIR + 'akephalos'} #{@socket_file}")
  end

  # Set up a monitor thread to detect if the forked server exits
  # prematurely.
  server_monitor = Thread.new { Thread.current[:exited] = Process.wait }

  # Wait for the server to be accessible on the socket we specified.
  until File.exists?(@socket_file)
    exit!(1) if server_monitor[:exited]
    sleep 1
  end
  server_monitor.kill

  # Ensure that the remote server shuts down gracefully when we are
  # finished.
  at_exit { Process.kill(:INT, remote_client); File.unlink(@socket_file) }
end