Tag: processes

Episode #488: At Exit

Always clean up before you turn out the lights!

Ruby's open() call has more tricks up its sleeves than you know!

Learn Ruby's `exec` method by building a tool that starts project-specific Apache instances

In today's episode we'll see how to discover what environment variables our programs are implicitly relying on.

Resource limits don't always have to be hard. Today we'll see how to put fuzzy handcuffs on a process.

Sometimes child processes can get unruly. Today we'll learn how to impose some discipline, using resource limits.

Starting processes is one thing. Keeping track of them after they've started is another.

Today we look at redirecting subprocess I/O, and discover that it's surprisingly easy!

In this episode we learn how to asynchronously start child processes.

In today's dish, we learn about the pros and cons of Ruby's peculiar backtick operator.

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