[LRUG] Gem to start required services

[Theo Cushion]

There's a gem called foreman which can help manage starting services: http://blog.daviddollar.org/2011/05/06/introducing-foreman.html

It's compatible with inittab and Ubuntu's Upstart service. Any use?

Theo

On 13 Jun 2012, at 13:54, Rory Franklin wrote:

> I could be entirely making this up, but is there a gem that you can define in a file within your app all the dependencies/services that the app requires to run and you can run that to boot things up/warn that they aren't running?
> 
> Say I have an app that requires another application to be running (service app) as well as a bunch of Resque workers, is there a way to start them all up in one go if they are not already running?
> 
> I know that the above is probably terribly vague and confused, but hopefully someone knows what I mean and I'm not imagining that such a tool already exists. If not, I guess some form of shell script would be able to do the same?
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> Thanks,
> Rory
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