launch

launch is a wrapper for launchd which lets you load, unload, reload, submit, remove, start, stop and list jobs for launchd as well as checkin from a process spawned by launchd and retrieve the sockets for the job that spawned the process.

launchd is an open source framework for launching and managing daemons, programs and scripts provided by Apple.

gem install launch

git clone https://github.com/samuelkadolph/ruby-launch
cd ruby-launch && rake install

Submit and remove jobs.

require "launch"

job = Launch::Job.new
job.label = "org.ruby.foo"
job.program = "/usr/bin/foo"
job.submit # => true

job.remove # => true

Start and stop jobs.

require "launch"

job = Launch::Job.find("org.ruby.foo")
job.start # => true
sleep 5
job.stop # => true

A system with launchd installed.

Pull requests are the desired method of contributing.

bundle install
rake install
rake test