I haven't done any DRb stuff in awhile, but I used to connect to a DRb server from a rails controller. I've never tried it in rails 3 and am wondering if Rails 3 is stricter about something like this or why it hasn't worked thus far.
My server/client code and error are shown below:
SERVER:
require 'drb'
class ParserSvc
def initialize
end
def check return 'ok' end
end
svc = ParserSvc.new
DRb.start_service 'druby://:9000', svc puts "Server running at #{DRb.uri}"
trap("INT") { DRb.stop_service } DRb.thread.join