Puma::FseventCleanup

Puma plugin to fix running too many fsevent_watch processes. Based on https://gist.github.com/steakknife/b318a570803b08c1548c7f51c18c0753

Problem (on macOS only)

  • Listen fires up a fsevent_watch for every directory watched
  • Puma is a threaded server, restarting it doesn't restart the Ruby process
  • The development server + spring uses Listen to hot-reload code (models, views, controllers, etc.)
  • Restarting the server doesn't call #stop on the Listen instances
  • Tons and tons of fsevent_watch appear until fork() fails

Solution

  • Call #stop on all Listen instances (including yours), to kill off unneeded fsevent_watch

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

# Gemfile
group :development, :test do
  gem 'puma-fsevent_cleanup'
end

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install puma-fsevent_cleanup

Add this to your config/puma.rb

# config/puma.rb

# kill off fsevent_watch in development
if ENV.fetch('RACK_ENV', 'development') == 'development'
  plugin :fsevent_cleanup
end

Notes

  1. Works with MRI
  2. Won't work with JRuby unless ObjectSpace is enabled
  3. Might not work on Rubinius
  4. Don't use bin/rails s use bin/bundle exec puma because Rails + Puma + rails c is broken (both try to write tmp/pids/server.pid, rails doesn't like threaded servers restarting themselves)

Development

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

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/actmd/puma-fsevent_cleanup.

License

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