lunchy-go

A friendly wrapper for launchctl. Start your agents and go to lunch!

This is a port of original lunchy ruby gem by Mike Perham with extra functionality.

Overview

Don't you hate OSX's launchctl? You have to give it exact filenames. The syntax is annoying different from Linux's nice, simple init system and overly verbose. It's just not a very developer-friendly tool.

Lunchy aims to be that friendly tool by wrapping launchctl and providing a few simple operations that you perform all the time:

• ls [pattern]
• start [pattern]
• stop [pattern]
• restart [pattern]
• status, ps [pattern]
• install [file]
• show [pattern]
• edit [pattern]
• remove, rm [pattern]
• scan [path]

where pattern is just a substring that matches the agent's plist filename.

So instead of:

$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/io.redis.redis-server.plist

you can do this:

$ lunchy start redis

and:

$ lunchy ls

com.danga.memcached
com.google.keystone.agent
com.mysql.mysqld
io.redis.redis-server
org.mongodb.mongod

Install

You can install binary by running the following bash command:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sosedoff/lunchy-go/master/install.sh | bash

Homebrew

Install using Homebrew:

brew install lunchy-go

Binary Releases

Precompiled binaries are available on Github: https://github.com/sosedoff/lunchy-go/releases

Build from source

Build source code with Go 1.2+:

git clone https://github.com/sosedoff/lunchy-go.git $GOPATH/src/lunchy
cd lunchy
go build
mv ./lunchy-go /usr/local/bin/lunchy

Usage

Add a new plist:

# Install plist
$ lunchy install /usr/local/Cellar/redis/2.8.1/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist

Manage services:

$ lunchy start redis
$ lunchy stop redis
$ lunchy restart redis
$ lunchy status redis

If you have multiple plists from homebrew, you can simple control all of them:

$ lunchy status
homebrew.mxcl.elasticsearch
homebrew.mxcl.mysql
homebrew.mxcl.postgresql
homebrew.mxcl.redis

# Will stop all processes prefixed by "homebrew"
$ lunchy stop homebrew

Manage plists:

$ lunchy show redis
$ lunchy edit redis

Scan directory for existing plists:

$ lunchy scan /usr/local/Cellar

Scan all homebrew plists:

$ lunchy scan homebrew

Profiles

When switching between different projects you might find yourself stopping and starting lots of different daemons in order to reduce memory usage. This is all good but there's a better way of doing it. Enter lunchy profiles.

Profile file .lunchy should be placed under your project's root directory and include a list of services that needs to be started or stopped. Example:

postgres
redis
elasticsearch

Then you can simply run the following command to start/stop/restart ALL of them at once:

lunchy start
lunchy stop
lunchy restart

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Dan Sosedoff, dan.sosedoff@gmail.com