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How do I keep a Ruby process running in background?

Posted on March 27, 2016

I’ve tried to use command “ruby app.rb&” . As far as I know, the mark “&” is use for keep my process running in the background that even I exit from ssh. However, as I exited, my program stop itself there. What should I do to keep it running?



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