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This is how to run a one off but long running rake task in the background. The ampersand in the end allows to run commands in background mode, but the `nohup` part in the beginning stops the app from receiving termination signal when the SSH session is closed. This allows for the app to run continuously in the background.
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nohup rake RAILS_ENV=production rake some_task &
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