From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2010-12-12T16:44:42+09:00
Subject: Re: How to tell if ruby app is already running

On 12/9/10 9:33 AM, ara.t.howard wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 4, 2:47 pm, Jim Burgess<jack.ze...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a FXRuby app, which is fine and dandy and does exactly what it
>> should. However, if the user, for whatever reason, decides to start two
>> instances of the app, bad things start happening.
>> My question: is there any way for my app to check if another instance of
>> itself is running before launching itself?
>>
>> Thanks very much in advance.
>>
>
>
> this will work in *nix and winblows:
>
> https://gist.github.com/734929

https://github.com/djberg96/highlander

:)

Dan