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Month: October 2017

Episode #502: Subprocesses Part 13: Detach, Wait, Kill
Don't let your Ruby subprocesses become zombies!

Episode #501: Suppress Output
Learn a robust, cross-platform way to throw away unwanted output in Ruby programs.

Episode #500: Subprocesses Part 12: Fork and Exec
Learn the twin pillars at the root of the UNIX process-spawning architecture!

Episode #499: Subprocesses Part 11: Fork
If you're making subprocesses on a UNIX-like OS, you're using fork(). Learn all about using fork() from Ruby.