Re: having a problem with DRb

Raj Sahae wrote:

I apologize for this having become a little off topic. Can anyone confirm what Bill is saying? How would I go about getting those specific binaries, and then how would I use them?

Go to the Cygwin homepage, and download the installer. Select what you need (a bit of familiarity with Linux wouldn't hurt), and wait for the download and installation to complete.

You can then redistribute it as long as you confirm to the GPL (or write up installation instructions, if you don't feel safe), and / or just redistribute the installer. It's the GPL, so you should be safe if you don't modify the Cygwin source and redistribute that.

Is there a way to
integrate them with ruby. Could I create my own SSH gem or SSH module somehow?

There's already an SSH gem (gem install net-ssh). You need Cygwin only to setup an SSH server on your side, and don't have to hack it up that much.

I have no idea, though, if this SSH server can interact with stuff outside of Cygwin, or if you have to compile Ruby within the Cygwin environment.

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