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

Ah, Google to the rescue! Check out

http://fitzgeraldsteele.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/launchd-example-start-web-server-at-boot-time/

wherein a helpful blogger provides an example of writing a launchd plist to launch a ruby Web application server.