Complex projects runner for Elixir projects!

If you’re starting multiple applications in multiple languages, continue using foreman! If it’s a tool that’s worked well for you in the past (and you have Ruby installed on your machine) there’s no reason to switch now.

If it’s all Elixir/Erlang things you wish to start I would ask why do you want to use more than one VM?

In the Ruby world I might create a new operating system process to perform some work concurrently, but with Elixir/Erlang I just add more processes to my supervision tree. Easier to manage, and more performant

Hi, the foreman gem isn’t specific to the Ruby Language because it can be used with many different languages and frameworks.

Next, if these processes are Erlang processes, then one can use supervisors to startup dependent processes depending on your overall process architecture.

At this time, I prefer working with Docker and Kubernetes because I can easily setup and execute the same environment locally that will eventually run in staging and production.

In short, the tools that you have learned in the past may be still relevant in the now. Also, look at leveraging general purpose tools that can used across languages and frameworks.

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Think different and code well,

-Conrad

As I said, I never used one before. but on a quick google it looked like it were like described.

Not remotely true. At the very least, it’s used by

GitHub - ddollar/foreman: Manage Procfile-based applications · GitHub

and its ports in various languages.

On a quick glance, it seems to be a flat yaml (only one level) where the keys are your node/dyno names and the values are a single command to run to start your server on that node/dyno.

Ah, so not related to a PIDFile at all, it is more like a systemd file, except with almost none of the capabilitites (???).

Dunno, haven’t continue reading after reaching the word “heroku” in googles definition box, which said this:

A Procfile is a mechanism for declaring what commands are run by your application’s dynos on the Heroku platform. It follows the process model. Mar 15, 2018

and linked to:

Heh, explains why I’ve not heard of it then… ^.^;

Is it anything like a pidfile or is it something else?

Okay, I now had some time to spare and google, and I learned that a procfile is specific to heroku, so if you want to stick to heroku, you’ll have no other option than to continue using this procfile…

I use a PIDFile with systemd to handle the server personally. I have full handling, restarting, etc… working well.