Articles tagged 'daemon-kit'

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daemon-kit 0.3.0.rc2 is ready

The second 0.3.0 release candidate has been pushed to Rubygems. Please read the 0.3.0.rc1 announcement for the changes between 0.2.x and that version.

What changed since 0.3.0.rc1?

Safely usage is now optional, see #73 for the details. Safely is...

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Daemon-kit 0.3.0.rc1 is ready

I barely managed to get a 0.3.0 release candidate out before today’s release of the Ruby Rogues episode on daemonizing Ruby projects, which focussed a lot on daemon-kit, but also general advice for going down this path.

Listen to the show if you haven...

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Practicing safe Ruby, with safely

UPDATE: Hoptoad was re-branded to Airbrake Bug Tracker since this post was originally written.

One of the things that makes daemon-kit such a great project (at least to me), is the built-in “safely” method wraps your code in a loving embrace of error...

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daemon-kit 0.1.8 released

I’m proud to announce that daemon-kit has finally made it to 0.1.8.1, almost a year after the last patch release. There has been a lot of changes since the last release, mostly cleanly up and staying with the times (so to speak). Github has an awesome...

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Looking beyond daemon-kit 0.2

Works Ahead - Singapore Department of Transport

I wrote daemon-kit to solve two big issues with writing daemon processes in Ruby:

  1. Everyone is re-inventing the daemons gem
  2. Individual daemons share a lot common code, apart from the daemonizing bits

As for #1, daemon-kit at first wrapped the...

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DaemonKit Lightning Talk RubyKaigi 2009

Undoubtedly my worst time on stage ever! Ubuntu gave me issues with the projector, so I actually had to leave the stage to go to another conference hall to get the setup working again and run back up to the main hall… Once there, I was a mumbling...

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daemon-kit Progress Report

Since I last announced Capistrano support for daemon-kit, a few other things have happened that is steadily moving the project forward. Here is a synopsis of them all:

No more daemons

Sounds contradictory, but I’ve stripped out the daemons gem as...

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Capistrano for your daemons

Nothing like some possitive feedback to keep you looking after your own projects, and the feedback on daemon-kit has been great so far. My TODO list is growing every day with more features that I need, and others need as well. I mostly add features...

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Safety nets for your Ruby daemons

Daemon-kit has been getting a lot of TLC from me lately, and it’s not going to stop anytime soon. As I wander deeper and deeper into AMQP territory, I need to extend daemon-kit to cope with all kinds of new scenarios. One of those being unhandled exceptions...

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Nanite agents now in daemon-kit

My recent love affair with AMQP & nanite has been quite a nice boost to daemon-kit. First it got a neat AMQP consumer generator, and today it got a nanite agent generator with sample actor.

Here is how to get going quickly:

$ sudo gem install kennethkalmer...