Foreman is a process manager commonly used during development of multi-component applications. for production, it allows allow you to either run your application directly or export it to some other process management format (i.e. init system service files).

foreman uses a file called procfile, which is the same mechanism for declaring what commands are run by your application??s dynos on the heroku platform. it follows the process model. you can use a procfile to declare various process types, such as multiple types of workers, a singleton process like a clock, or a consumer of the twitter streaming api.

this package contains examples and html documentation for ruby-foreman.