A toolkit to create and control daemons in different ways
Daemons provides an easy way to wrap existing ruby scripts (for example a self-written server) to be run as a daemon and to be controlled by simple start/stop/restart commands. You can also call blocks as daemons and control them from the parent or just daemonize the current process. Besides this basic functionality, daemons offers many advanced features like exception backtracing and logging (in case your ruby script crashes) and monitoring and automatic restarting of your processes if they crash.
Daemons provides an easy way to wrap existing ruby scripts (for example a self-written server) to be run as a daemon and to be controlled by simple start/stop/restart commands. You can also call blocks as daemons and control them from the parent or just daemonize the current process. Besides this basic functionality, daemons offers many advanced features like exception backtracing and logging (in case your ruby script crashes) and monitoring and automatic restarting of your processes if they crash.
To install rb-daemons, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install rb-daemons
To see what files were installed by rb-daemons, run:
port contents rb-daemons
To later upgrade rb-daemons, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade rb-daemons
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