From: byronsalty <byronsalty@...>
Date: 2007-06-17T01:55:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Process id

On Jun 16, 12:13 pm, Gianni Dupro <tetta...@lu.unisi.ch> wrote:
> Hi everybody I m nobie of ruby
>
> I need some hint about to catch a id of a certain process
>
> for instance if I run this line of code
>
> `ruby file.rb` there is a possibility to have the id of this process
> (file.rb process)
>
> my problem if the file.rb was lock I need the pId for kill it

You can see the process id by putting this as the first line:
print "#{Process.pid}\n"

Alternatively you seem to be using a *nix computer so you can find the
process with ps:
ps -ef | grep ruby

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