I just stumbled across the foreman gem (https://github.com/ddollar/foreman) yesterday, and it could potentially be quite useful for all who run their own Gitorious installations.
Foreman lets you create a Procfile, a description of which services an application consists of, and then start and stop all of these with a single command. On my computer I added a file named Procfile to the root of my Gitorious installation looking like this: web: bundle exec script/server poller: bundle exec script/poller run stompserver: stompserver After adding this file, enter the following: $ gem install foreman $ foreman start This will give you a nice output in your terminal, one color for each of the processes described in the Procfile, and run each of the commands specified in the file. Once you click Ctrl-C in your terminal, all processes will be stopped. This makes a lot of sense when developing, saving you from opening three terminal windows/tabs - one for each process, and then having to cancel all of them afterwards. If you want to start the git:// protocol handler, search engine etc as well, it's just a line in your Procfile away. Furthermore, Foreman supports exporting its configuration to either sysvinit- or Upstart-style configuration files to let your operating system take care of your processes instead. This blog post: http://michaelvanrooijen.com/articles/2011/06/08-managing-and-monitoring-your-ruby-application-with-foreman-and-upstart/ has more information about this; it could potentially replace a separate monitoring tool like Monit or God. "Real" system administrators will probably want a little more control over their Upstart jobs, but it should make sense in a lot of cases. I've been pondering whether to add a (sample) Procfile to the Gitorious source code, or even a Procfile.sample, but I see a few issues with this: - The deployment strategies people use for Gitorious may not be the same as my preferences, which is an argument for shipping a default - Procfiles don't allow comments (yet), which means we can't put alternatives and documentation in there - For Foreman to work out of the box, we'd need to add it to the Gemfile, which doesn't make sense for users who won't be using it Try it out and let me know what you think! Cheers, - Marius -- To post to this group, send email to gitorious@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gitorious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
