Spawn a background process in Ruby

Question

I\'m writing a ruby bootstrapping script for a school project, and part of this bootstrapping process is to start a couple of background processes (which are written and fun

Answer 1

better way to pseudo-deamonize:

`((/path/to/deamon1 &)&)` 

will drop the process into it's own shell.

best way to actually daemonize:

`service daemon1 start`

and make sure the server/user has permission to start the actual daemon. check out 'deamonize' tool for linux to set up your deamon.

Answer 2

As long as you are working on a POSIX OS you can use fork and exec.

fork = Create a subprocess

exec = Replace current process with another process

You then need to inform that your main-process is not interested in the created subprocesses via Process.detach.

job1 = fork do
  exec "/path/to/daemon01"
end

Process.detach(job1)

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