2. Ruby daemons are a PITA
Tired of brittle daemons ?
Tired of running blind ?
Tired of setting up monitoring ?
Tired of worrying about logging ?
Tired of missing pid files ?
4. daemonkit ?
Opionated Framework for Ruby daemons
Keep things DRY
Generators to help make things simple
Rake tasks to help keep things simple
5. Multiple environments
Development
Be noisy, break early, break hard
Testing
Staging
Production
Be quiet, stay alive, recover easily
6. Don't worry about pid files
Managed for you
Infered or explicit files
Great for controlling clusters
Handles stale pid files