Ruby: How to demonize MailMan (incoming mail processing microframework)

Question

I'm using mailman gem for fetching email from pop3 server and send it to Rails application. What should I do to make mailman be as daemon? Please, tell me easiest way to do it.

May be whenever gem can help? Something like:

  every :reboot do

    command "cd /home/rails/root && ruby bin/mailman_fetcher.rb"

  end

Which operating system are you using? – Steve Smith Sep 07 '10 at 12:53 — Steve Smith, Sep 07 '10 at 12:53

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 11 '10 at 18:53

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Take a look at Daemons, http://daemons.rubyforge.org/

answered Sep 11 '10 at 18:53

Daniel Schierbeck

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Don't forget to set 'Mailman.config.ignore_stdin = true' to avoid some issues when running as a daemon. – Jonathan R. Wallace Jan 07 '11 at 18:04
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+1 for Jonathan, took me an hour to get it to work with daemons. – ipd Mar 22 '13 at 18:17
Jonathan, thank you!! just spent 4 hours trying to figure out why Mailman as a daemon was just exiting. – Peter P. Aug 14 '13 at 06:24

Ruby: How to demonize MailMan (incoming mail processing microframework)

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