Keep your rake running

Keep your rake running

To keep your rake process running, you can monitor and start it using god(a process monitoring framework)

Install the god using the following command

$ [sudo] gem install god 

create a directory 

create a file with filename.god  Put the below code

 1 God.watch do |w|
  2   w.dir = "/rails/root/directory/path/"
  3   w.name = "rakewatch"
  4   w.start = "rake jobs:work"
  5   w.keepalive
  6 end
 

 To have the process running in the background issue the following command.


god -c filename.god -D

This will monitor the rake task and start it if its not running.