2.4 Moving Ahead

In this chapter, we learned about distributed object systems in general and then compared dRuby with other systems. You’ll find that dRuby hides most of the complexity of building distributed systems so that you can write a distributed program as an extension of normal Ruby programming. Having said that, there are a few differences to bear in mind, especially how to pass Ruby objects.

In the next chapter, I’ll introduce another library I wrote called ERB. ERB is a template library that we’ll use to add a web interface to the Reminder app we created in Chapter 1, ​Hello, dRuby​.