From: "Saji N. Hameed" <saji@...21.net>
Date: 2008-11-14T10:41:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Background option like script/server -d has

* Daniel Waite <rabbitblue@gmail.com> [2008-11-14 08:35:57 +0900]:

> Hi. I'm curious to know how I can type something like the following:
> 
> $ ruby my_program.rb
> 
> Press enter, and gain immediate control of the terminal again, as
> happens when you supply the -d option when running the script/server
> command from inside a Rails app.
> 
> Any ideas?

The 'daemons' library may help
http://rubyforge.org/projects/daemons/

require 'daemons'
  Daemons.run_proc('a string for identifier') do
   ...your code
  end

saji

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