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.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'launchd'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install launchd
Usage
Initialize a service object:
service = Launchd::Service.new,
label: 'com.example.chunkybacon', # Required
program_arguments: %w(/usr/sbin/chunkyd --bacon), # Required
keep_alive: true # Optional
Only label and program_arguments are required. See
man launchd.plist(5)
for all possible properties.
Then stop, overwrite and start the service with the given properties (i.e. for deployment):
service.restart
IMPORTANT: If you run the code as root (sudo), the daemon will get installed as
system-wide service under /Library/LaunchDaemons
.
Otherwise it get saved as current user's agent inside ~/Library/LaunchAgents
which will only run after login.
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.