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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ujihisa/tasks
• Owner: ujihisa
• Created: 2009-08-12T08:28:59.000Z (almost 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-02-03T23:55:33.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-14T04:08:30.713Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Size: 74.2 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Tasks -- Better Process Manager for Ruby

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## spawn

`tasks` provides `spawn` even in ruby 1.8.

    require 'tasks'

    include Tasks

    pid = spawn './something.rb'

    ...

    system "kill #{pid}"

`spawn` is like system with `'&'` and it also returns the procces id.

## love_pact

`tasks` supports a couple to do a love pact.

    require 'tasks'

    include Tasks

    master_pid = spawn './master.rb'

    slave_pid = spawn './slave.rb'

    fork do

      love_pact master_pid, slave_pid

    end

If a master died, the slave dies immediately.

Note that now `love_pact` works only in UNIX.