simple-daemon

→ ‘simple-daemon’

What

SimpleDaemon is a lightweight daemon module for Ruby. Use it to add daemon functionality to your Ruby script.

Installation

sudo gem install simple-daemon

Example

class Processor < SimpleDaemon::Base
  SimpleDaemon::WorkingDirectory = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/log" 

  def self.start
    loop do  
      # loop through some process
    end
  end

  def self.stop
    puts "Stopping processor  " 
  end
end

Processor.daemonize

Forum

http://groups.google.com/group/simple-daemon

How to submit patches

Read the 8 steps for fixing other people’s code and for section 8b: Submit patch to Google Groups, use the Google Group above.

The trunk repository is svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/simple-daemon/trunk for anonymous access.

License

This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.

Contact

Thanks to Sharon Rosner for the original module. simple-daemon is substantially his code, with a few improvements (and the gem packaging) by Jon Dahl of Slantwise Design and Railspikes (blog).

Comments are welcome. Send an email to simple-daemon@googlegroups.com.

Dr Nic, 9th July 2007
Theme extended from Paul Battley