Services with rails app.md

Services

MAC OS

Redis

• install

brew update
brew install redis

• start

brew services start redis

• stop

brew services stop redis

• Test if Redis server is running.

redis-cli ping

If it replies “PONG”, then it’s good to go!

• Location of Redis configuration file.

/usr/local/etc/redis.conf

• Uninstall Redis and its files.

brew uninstall redis
rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist

Postgres

• check info brew info postgres

• Start manually

brew services start postgresql

or

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start

for specific version

brew services start postgresql@10

• Stop manually

brew services stop postgresql

or

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres stop

• Start automatically "To have launchd start postgresql now and restart at login:"

brew services start postgresql

Aside

Check the output of the following commands to determine which package manager it(the package) was installed with:

brew && brew list|grep postgres
fink && fink list|grep postgres
port && port installed|grep postgres