God VS Foreman

Was it http://godrb.com/?

It's odd in the same way that Prophet and https://github.com/mojombo/god are. A bit grandiose or sacrilegious.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sacrilegious

god used to be a fairly popular process supervisor written in Ruby. I don't remember there being much controversy around the name (with the build tool zeus, other gods have been put through the ringer too), apart from one GH issue I just found which was created quite some time after the project stopped being maintained.

Did they replace systemd with god now? I can’t keep up with this anymore…

I was confused because there is https://github.com/ddollar/foreman and https://github.com/theforeman/foreman

Are you looking for something like https://github.com/ddollar/foreman?

Btw, there's a large number of tools that use the Procfile file format, including what appears to be the original one, written in Ruby https://github.com/ddollar/foreman (the readme has links to a partial list of foreman clones)

But I agree that overmind is the best of the bunch

We ran our app via bin/dev. You can find the div file inside ./bin/dev folder. It is a ruby wrapper over the process manager forman which manages Procfile-based applications. Rails automatically install foreman gem but it doesn’t bundle it because forman recommends NOT to do 🚫

Note: Alternatively, you can install Foreman on your computer and execute the ./bin/dev command to simultaneously generate the TailwindCSS classes and also run the Rails server in a single terminal.

using foreman with the foreman start -f Procfile.dev command to start my app.

Obviously, we still need to install a runner to handle this procfile. Meet foreman, or one of it's forks. Foreman is a Ruby script, so for that you'll need to have Ruby installed. There are many forks though. Such as shoreman, which is a dependency free shell script, or node-foreman, which is a javascript fork. I go with node-foreman, for the simple reason that I'm a node guy and I like that I can npm install it to the dependencies of my node projects.

Comes Foreman to the rescue! Foreman is a gem (for Ruby, but it already ported to many others languages) that will load a Procfile and start/stop the services configured by demand.

A bin/dev file - This should be how you run your application in development. It runs (and optionally installs if you don't have it) Foreman, so you can run your server and build Javsacript on the fly

So far, whenever I started the Rails app, I launched these supporting processes in multiple terminal windows. This week, I learned a new way to do this using a single command using the Foreman gem, which has saved me a lot of time.