A collection of blog posts, articles and presentations on writing daemon processes with Ruby (with and without daemon-kit involved).

• Memory-hungry Ruby daemons – Blog post by Mike Perham on how to guide MRI’s memory allocation.
• Angels & Daemons – The original Thoughbot presentation that started it all.
• Q&A with the Scout Agent – Clever tricks used by the Scout Agent to prevent memory leaks and remain speedy.
• Verifying good behavior for Ruby daemons – Interesting post on making sure sleeping daemons stay sleeping.
• RubyKaigi 2009 Lightning Talk on daemon-kit
• 5 Things You Don’t Know About User IDs That Will Destroy You – Very important read if you plan on dropping privileges in your daemon