Maintenance Of Rails Programs

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        This is a maintenance script, yanked from Lucas Carlson's blog.  Put this in your rails app to have a quick and dirty server maintenance cleanup app:

original at: http://tech.rufy.com/entry/15

pid_file = '/tmp/running.pid'
begin
  File.stat pid_file
rescue
  f = File.new pid_file, 'w'
  f < < fork {
    loop {
      # do lots of maintenance
      sleep 15*60
    }
  }
  f.close
end

Finally, if your maintenance code needs to be changed, a couple simple commands can restart the new maintenance code:

kill `cat /tmp/running.pid`
rm /tmp/running.pid

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• Maintenance
• Rails
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