= DaemonChild

A stripped down and hopefully more straightforward way to write daemons in 
Ruby.

* http://github.com/jro/daemonchild

Having written a few daemons in the past using the 'daemons' gem, I've 
always found it to be a bit to heavy-weight for me.  You can write a 
great, stable daemon based on it, but I've longed for something that 
felt more Unix-ey.  Does one thing, and (hopefully) does it well: turn
your ruby script into a daemon.  This project is my attempt at that.

== FEATURES 

* There aren't many.  It should just turn the running script into a
  daemon.  From there it's all on you.  

== SYNOPSIS

  require 'DaemonChild'

  DaemonChild.spawn
  <insert your code here>

== INSTALL

* gem install daemonchild

== TODO

Use the examples/ as a basis for tests

== KNOWN ISSUES

None (yet)!

== OTHER OPTIONS

In case DaemonChild doesn't fit your needs, here are some other 
options:

* http://daemons.rubyforge.org/
* http://github.com/TwP/servolux
* http://github.com/alexvollmer/daemon-spawn

== LICENSE

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2010 Jason Rohwedder

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