From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-02-20T02:26:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Starting a process from inside Ruby

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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Petr Janda <elekktretterr@exemail.com.au>wrote:

> Ok ive had some success with using threads instead of forks. Im able to
> retreive the pid of the ezstream easily process because Threads share
> variables!
>

You might also want to have a look at backgroundrb which is the normal way
to do background jobs in Rails.

http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/

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