huyderman/fork.rb

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huyderman created this gist Apr 21, 2015.

fork.rb

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+    require 'logger'
+    logger = Logger.new STDOUT
+    function = -> { logger.info "Something that takes a while..." }
+    # fork is not portable
+    if Process.respond_to?(:fork)
+      Process.detach fork(&function)
+    else
+      function
+    end