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

Need to see the daemons-rails gem for Rails 3 (based on rails_generator):

https://github.com/mirasrael/daemons-rails

Possible to generate daemon stub like this:

rails generate daemon 

Features:

• individual control script per daemon
• rake:daemon command per daemon
• capistrano friendly
• app-wide control script
• monitoring API
• possible multiple daemon sets