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Ruby Daemons: Verifying Good Behavior

If your ruby daemon isn’t doing something useful, it should be sleeping. A misbehaving daemon wakes up repeatedly, uses your CPU unnecessarily, and then goes back to sleep without doing anything helpful. It is easy to write a misbehaving daemon in Ruby, since you’re pretty well-insulated from what is actually happening at the operating system [...]

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