(Ruby) Write service with daemons gem

How to make a ruby script run only one instance at a time? and with start/stop command?

Actually, it's very simple, just use Daemons gem.

installation (ubuntu):

sudo gem install daemons

Simplest example: test.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'daemons'

Daemons.run_proc('myproc.rb') do
  loop do
    sleep(5)
    puts "Hello World"
  end
end

Than you can use following commands:

ruby test.rb [start|stop|restart|run|zap]

(Run 'ruby test.rb' will get command usage.)

And when you try to run 'test.rb start' twice. you will get:

ERROR: there is already one or more instance(s) of the program running

==Traditional Chinese version==


如何讓一支ruby程式一次只有一個instance？並且有start/stop等指令呢？

其實，這非常簡單，只要用Daemons gem就可以了。

安裝 (ubuntu):

sudo gem install daemons

最簡單的範例: test.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'daemons'

Daemons.run_proc('myproc.rb') do
  loop do
    sleep(5)
    puts "Hello World"
  end
end

然後你就可以用以下指令了：

ruby test.rb [start|stop|restart|run|zap]

(執行 'ruby test.rb' 會提示你指令用法)

當你嘗試執行 'test.rb start' 兩次，你會得到以下錯誤:

ERROR: there is already one or more instance(s) of the program running