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+message = 'Good Morning'
+recipient = 'tree@mybackyard.com'
+
+pid = 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
+
+# This line ensures that the process performing the stats collection
+# won't become a zombie.
+Process.detach(pid)
+