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I need a way to kill the ferret_server drb process programatically, so I can start/stop it as part of the capistrano deployment process. This should be as simple as adding some sort of stop method to ActsAsFerret::Remote::Server. I was just messing around and was able to do it by modifying method_missing to look for the :stop method and then calling DRb.thread.exit -- this is not good enough for

I would like to unify the ferret_start and ferret_stop scripts into a single script. My motivation is to make the scripts more like the other rails scripts, and to also make it fit into monitoring schemes better. I realize that some work was done recently to allow the scripts to be run from script/runner, but I think a unified script is a better approach. A unified script would allow more

...but when I try to start the server I get the following: D:\test>ruby script\ferret_server --debug start fork() function is unimplemented on this machine D:/test/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:41:in `fork'' D:/test/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:41:in `safefork'' D:/test/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:11:in `platform_daemon'' D:/test/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/ferret_server.rb:78:in `start'' ./script/../vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/server_manager.rb:53:in `send'' ./script/../vendor/plugins/act...