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diff --git a/code/snippets/bg_process.rb b/code/snippets/bg_process.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b7323e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/code/snippets/bg_process.rb @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +message = 'Good Morning' +recipient = 'tree@mybackyard.com' + +fork do + # In this contrived example the parent process forks a child to take + # care of sending data to the stats collector. Meanwhile the parent + # process has continued on with its work of sending the actual payload. + + # The parent process doesn't want to be slowed down with this task, and + # it doesn't matter if this would fail for some reason. + StatsCollector.record message, recipient +end + +# send message to recipient + |