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I have a Ruby 1.9 script that I want to run as a long-running background process.
It looks like I have a choice between calling Process.daemon inside the script to daemonize it, or I can just run the script in the background using a shell’s ampersand and keep it running after I log out of the server by prefixing the command with nohup.
Which way is better?
Process.daemonseems like a more clean and straightforward way, especially if this is something you would ever way to turn into a full-fledged daemon that is started during boot.