After spending a while with google, I found following...
1. Fork is not present on Windows; will have to use Win32-process module for
enabling fork.
2. Threads are the way to achiveve platform independence in such cases.
3. Daemons module(support for POSIX systems) can be used for creating
daemons.
http://rubyforge.org/projects/daemons/.
I tried using threads from one of the methods of a controller of an RoR
application; I have following method in my controller which gets called when
a link is clicked in one of the rhtml pages.
def servst
threads =[]
threads<< Thread.new {
system ''cd C:\InstantRails\rails_apps\xyz &
C:\InstantRails\ruby\bin\ruby
C:\InstantRails\ruby\bin\scgi_service''
}
threads.each { |t| t.join}
end
when this method is called(on click of a link in an rhtml page), I.E.
progress bar goes on showing some progress, but never completes.
Note: The server I intend to start does gets started; but the current
session from where the server was started gets hung.
I need a way to start the server and continue traversing various links in
the same session.
Thanks
Jatinder
On 6/5/06, Jatinder Singh <jatinder.saundh@gmail.com>
wrote:>
> From a ruby program I would like to start another process which should
> continue to run even after the parent process dies.
> Is there any way I could achive this?
>
> From the child process I want to start an instance of SCGI server which
> should continue to run even if the parent process dies.
>
>
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Jatinder
>
>
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