This gem aims at being a simple and reliable solution for controlling external programs running in the background on any Ruby / OS combination.
The code originated in the selenium-webdriver gem, but should prove useful as a standalone library.
process = ChildProcess.build("ruby", "-e", "sleep").start process.started? #=> true process.alive? #=> true process.exited? #=> false process.stop
The object returned from ChildProcess.build will implement ChildProcess::AbstractProcess.
How the process is launched and killed depends on the platform:
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Unix : fork + exec
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Windows : CreateProcess and friends
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JRuby : java.lang.{Process,ProcessBuilder}
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IronRuby : System.Diagnostics.Process
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Fork the project.
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Make your feature addition or bug fix.
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Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
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Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
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Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright © 2010 Jari Bakken. See LICENSE for details.