Spawn a background process in Ruby

Question

I\'m writing a ruby bootstrapping script for a school project, and part of this bootstrapping process is to start a couple of background processes (which are written and fun

Answer 1

better way to pseudo-deamonize:

`((/path/to/deamon1 &)&)` 

will drop the process into it's own shell.

best way to actually daemonize:

`service daemon1 start`

and make sure the server/user has permission to start the actual daemon. check out 'deamonize' tool for linux to set up your deamon.