From: Michael Malone <michael.malone@...>
Date: 2009-02-19T10:18:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Starting a process from inside Ruby

Petr Janda wrote:
> Hi all,
> Im facing a small dilema trying to start a process called "ezstream"
> from inside a ruby on rails application and retreive its PID.
>
> Ezstream is used for streaming audio into an icecast server so normally
> this process runs in background for a long time. I tried it with
> IO.popen but then the application hangs indefinitely. What I need to do
> is start the app, get its PID(to store it in a databasse), and move it
> to the background so the rails application doesnt hang.
>
> Any ideas?
> Petr
>   
I don't know if this works inside rails but the Kernel#fork method is a 
good idea!

pid = fork() do
    #Ezstream stuff
end
#store pid in db
...
wait(pid)

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