Make a Ruby program a daemon?

Question

I want to write a Ruby program that will always be running in the background (a daemon) on my Mac.

Can someone point me in the right direction on how this would be d

Answer 1

Use Daemonize.rb

require 'daemons'
Daemons.daemonize

Very simple sample: http://github.com/utkarsh2012/backitup/blob/master/backitup.rb

How to install daemons gem:

gem install daemons