Daemons provides an easy way to wrap existing ruby scripts (for example a self-written server) to be run as a daemon and to be controlled by simple start/stop/restart commands. You can also call blocks as daemons and control them from the parent or just daemonize the current...

daemon-kit aims to simplify creating Ruby daemons by providing a sound application skeleton (through a generator), task specific generators (jabber bot, etc) and robust environment management code.

daemonization support for Rails 3+

A plugin for creating psuedo-scheduled jobs in Ruby on Rails.

Turn any process into a demon.

A simpler way to create Ruby fallen angels, better known as daemons

Looper is a module that your class can use to become a really, really simple daemon

Inspired by bundler and rack. Mostly built on top of Alexey Kovyrin's loops code. http://github.com/kovyrin/loops

MultiDaemon provides an warpper to run multiple daemon scripts which can be controlled by start/stop and restart commands

Helps you creating and managing daemon threads with Ruby.

Small daemon framework for ruby, with logging, error handler, scheduling and much more.

Trivial module that allows you to create threads that are not killed if the process exits cleanly

Simple module that adds daemon functionality to a Ruby script.