Ruby background service

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Published on 2010-05-24T22:29:02Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 6:51 UTC
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tcpclient

I have a TCPclient written on Ruby. I want to use it in background. Currently it has a loop:

loop do
end

So i can run a client, and it works forever.

Is there a way to run in as a service, and write a pid to file, then i'll able to kill that process by pid?

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