Ruby-Launchd - Control Mac OS X services with Ruby

Ruby-Launchd is like launchctl (or the famous lunchy). It lets you easily create, start and stop services on Mac OS X, but with Ruby.

NOTE: This is currently just the README without any code!

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'launchd'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install launchd

Usage

A new service requires a label (in reverse-domain-notation) and the actual command to run as array:

service = Launchd.new 'com.example.chunkybacon', %w(/usr/sbin/chunkyd --bacon)

Then start and stop it with...

service.start # Starts the service if not already running.
service.stop  # Stops the service unless already stopped.

Both return true on success or false otherwise, i.e. if a job was already running.

Use the bang-version to forcefully overwrite an already running service:

service.start! # Stops, updates and starts service, no matter if it's running or not.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.