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Manage Procfile-based applications

21 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 1 story, 20 comments · first 2011-06-03 · latest 2026-01-23

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  1. …6: https://github.com/svanderburg/nix-processmgmt 7: https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ 8: https://github.com/ddollar/foreman 9: https://shepherding.services/ 10: https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/
    comment by pxc · 2026-01-23 · in What has Docker become?
  2. …would have for a tool like this and it's already been solved for nearly 15 years by foreman [1] [1] https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
    comment by VWWHFSfQ · 2025-07-28 · in Multiplex: Command-Line Process Mutliplexer
  3. …[0] which I found to be superior to dotenv in every way. Even superior to this new dotenvx [0] https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
    comment by VWWHFSfQ · 2024-06-25 · in Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management
  4. I was confused because there is https://github.com/ddollar/foreman and https://github.com/theforeman/foreman
    comment by stop50 · 2023-07-30 · in Overmind, a better foreman or bin/dev for your Procfile
  5. Are you looking for something like https://github.com/ddollar/foreman ?
    comment by jamesbrennan · 2023-06-29 · in Ask HN: CLI tool like Docker-compose but fully local?
  6. …services/dependencies, etc. There are multiple implementations of it, heres the canonical one: https://github.com/ddollar/foreman And heres a go version that's easier to install and use: https://github.com/ddollar/forego
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2023-02-23 · in Show HN: Xc – A Markdown Defined Task Runner
  7. …that use the Procfile file format, including what appears to be the original one, written in Ruby https://github.com/ddollar/foreman (the readme has links to a partial list of foreman clones) But I agree that overmind is the best of the…
    comment by nextaccountic · 2022-12-29 · in Spin up your development background processes with ease
  8. I thought it was a new version of https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
    comment by paozac · 2021-09-17 · in Foreman 3.0
  9. Isnt that what Foreman and its Procfile handle? https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
    comment by JamesSwift · 2020-09-08 · in Introduction to runc
  10. Foreman https://github.com/ddollar/foreman When I learned Ruby a while back. I know it doesn’t sound like much, but it was the first tool I’d used in development that showed me how I develop is critically important. It’s just a simple tool…
    comment by brightball · 2020-06-09 · in Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?
  11. Not unchartered waters for the Convox folks: https://github.com/ddollar/foreman (Convox employee) http://theforeman.org/
    comment by zeckalpha · 2016-05-10 · in Rack: Open-Source PaaS on AWS
  12. Reminds me of https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
    comment by dnstevenson · 2015-04-09 · in Aviator: locally launch a service and all its dependent services
  13. …inside your app. Then you just need to make sure .env is in your .gitignore and you’re happy. [0] https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
    comment by robin_reala · 2014-12-31 · in Why Deleting Sensitive Information from GitHub Doesn't Save You
  14. This is the use case of Foreman. https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
    comment by tlunter · 2014-08-30 · in Show HN: Restore tmux environment after a system restart
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    Ddollar says don't put foreman in Gemfile
    story by seamusabshere · 2014-04-23 · 0 comments
  16. …this Figaro does, just thought I'd throw foreman out there as another solution to keep in mind. [1] https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
    comment by JangoSteve · 2013-12-18 · in The Marriage of Figaro… and Rails 4.1 👰
  17. https://github.com/ddollar/foreman is what is used for the local testing, but also for the actual running of the app on the Cedar stack. One could use Foreman and Docker and AWS to make a pretty reasonable PaaS. (I'm working on a S3…
    comment by zeckalpha · 2013-07-17 · in How Heroku Works
  18. …to try to implement as much of it as possible when I do. [1] http://www.12factor.net/config [2] https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
    comment by graue · 2012-12-14 · in Rails Environment Variables
  19. …a name change though. Foreman is also the name of a very popular CLI based web development tool ( https://github.com/ddollar/foreman )
    comment by numeral_two · 2012-09-07 · in Show HN: My first Mac app, Foreman, free and on Github. Would love feedback
  20. …I could test this a bit more and maybe formulate a patch. Example posix-spawn usage [here][1]. [1]: https://github.com/ddollar/foreman/blob/master/lib/foreman/p...
    comment by waffle_ss · 2012-05-29 · in Stripe open-sources Einhorn
  21. …out; for example Foreman fails to kill off Redis (for me) as described in this closed bug report: https://github.com/ddollar/foreman/issues/15 Not a huge deal though. I'm happy to be using it for development.
    comment by pie · 2011-06-03 · in Run Your Own Piece of Heroku with Foreman