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octopusci tentacle LaunchAgent for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

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keyvanfatehi edited this page Jun 8, 2012 · 1 revision

Tired of starting octopusci-tentacle each time you reboot? Use the Mac's built-in launch services to start it! Here's how:

First I will assume that you've installed octopusci as a gem and it is currently showing up when you type gem list

You'll now want to create the rvm wrapper to make sure your environment is as it should be when we have the system start octopusci-tentacles, by doing this: rvm wrapper ruby-1.9.3-p0 rvm octopusci-tentacles

Be sure to replace your ruby version with whatever ruby version you're using, (find out with ruby --version)

Create the file ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.octopusci.tentacles.plist Enter the following NOTE Be sure to replace YourUserName with your user name.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <false/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.octopusci.tentacles</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>./rvm_octopusci-tentacles</string>
      <string>start</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>UserName</key>
    <string>YourUserName</string>
    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
    <string>/Users/YourUserName/.rvm/bin</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/usr/local/var/log/octopusci-tentacles.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/usr/local/var/log/octopusci-tentacles.log</string>
    <key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
    <true/>
  </dict>
</plist>

Good, now you can let the system know to load this immediately by issuing the following command: launchctl load -w com.octopusci.tentacles.plist

If something goes wrong, you can observe this file: /usr/local/var/log/octopusci-tentacles.log The most convenient way is to tail it by doing tail -f /usr/local/var/log/octopusci-tentacles.log and using launchctl stop, start, unload, load, and so on.

When all else fails stop by irc at #octopusci on irc.freenode.net

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