On 9/16/06, HH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Someone on the Rails list mentioned that they thought it was possible to get
Mongrel to launch other processes at start time.
I have an app that relies on backgroundrb and also an external listening
program and I'd love it if I could set it up so that when Mongrel starts,
these start as well.
Is it true that this can be done?
Where would I look for documentation on this?
I thought perhaps the -S option might help but it looks like that's for
something else.
I think that "someone" was me. According to Zed :
You could put it in a mongrel.conf and just have Mongrel run it on
start-up:
mongrel_rails start -S mongrel.conf
(Even though it ends in .conf it's actually Ruby code that gets run
inside the Configurator.)
I am not entirely sure, what Zed meant by inside Configurator, but you can always write a ruby program, which will fork the process and detach itself from the current process using Process.detach.
So, technically this script should work:
exec("rake backgroundrb:start") if fork.nil?
Process.detach
Of course...i haven't tested it and you need to set some environment stuff...before you can have access to proper rake command.
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