Overmind, a better foreman or bin/dev for your Procfile

[hbroadbent]

https://railsnotes.xyz/blog/overmind-better-bin-dev-for-your-procfile-dev

[hbroadbent]

I recently wrote about Overmind (https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind), a drop in replacement for foreman.

If you've ever used Foreman or another local Procfile/process manager, I think you'll love Overmind.

It's basically a more customisable foreman that runs in tmux - which means you can do cool things like tmux into a process and attach a debugger (which is nearly impossible with foreman).

Hope you enjoy the article!

[stop50 → hbroadbent]

I was confused, because i know one other ruby program called foreman.

[hbroadbent → stop50]

Why confused? Overmind basically does the same thing as Foreman - runs processes from your Procfile. So maybe you have a web: and worker: process - Overmind will run them for you.

The difference between Overmind and foreman is that Overmind runs processes with tmux, which makes it a lot easier to interact with them. Plus there's lots of extra config that foreman doesn't have.

[stop50 → hbroadbent]

I was confused because there is https://github.com/ddollar/foreman and https://github.com/theforeman/foreman

[stop50 → hbroadbent]

There is one more foreman than the mentioned process manager: github.com/theforeman/foreman

[hbroadbent → stop50]

Ah! right makes sense, I didn't know there were two