Answer to your question lies in question itself. you can kill ruby processes using god gem which is ruby process process monitor framework by github guys.
basically, here is how it works:
- configure god to monitor process it can be anything from apache,passenger,mongrel or just simple file doing a long-running task.
- Set conditionals in god's configuration file based upon which god will execute some predefined code.
here is a simple example(taken from docs). consider this as file long running process that runs undefiantly which we want to monitor for memory usage, lets call it simple.rb
loop do
puts 'Hello'
sleep 1
end
now, we install the god gem & configure it to as run as superuser so it can kill/spawn processes and next create a configuration file. example(also taken from docs):
God.watch do |w|
w.name = "simple"
w.start = "ruby /full/path/to/simple.rb"
w.keepalive(:memory_max => 500.megabytes)
end
Here, as you may have got the idea if the process memory usage goes above 500 megabytes, god will restart it. here are few resources that might help, if you are getting started with process management using god gem:
Now, please remember ALL configuration for god is actually legal ruby code so you can get creative & do all sorts of things.
lastly, if you are frequently finding yourself running long running process, I advice you to try JRuby which is works much better with long running processes due to JVM & LOT faster than MRI
