necro

Necro is a gem for managing processes in development environment.

Usage

You need to start by creating a ini file which will define processes you want to manage using necro. An example ini file is included in the repo.

[rails]
directory = /home/gnufied/god_particle
command = zsh -c 'bundle exec rails s -p 5000'

[dj]
directory = /home/gnufied/god_particle
command = zsh -c 'bundle exec ruby script/delayed_job'


[events]
directory = /home/gnufied/god_particle
command = zsh -c 'bundle exec ruby script/event_server'

After that you can start process manager via:

~> necro start necro.ini

Above command will start all your processes in one terminal with their stdout/stderr merged and labelled.

Now additionally you can control individual process by,

# Will try to stop running delayed job by sending SIGINT to the process
~> necro remove dj

# If Process can't be killed by SIGINT send a custom signal
~> necro remove dj -s 9

# add and start running
~> necro add dj

You can also enable OSX notifications for crashed processes by installing terminal-notification gem. It is not a dependency, but can be useful if something crashed and you weren't paying attention.