[Cialug] Starting two jobs at once

[Matthew Nuzum]

Hi, in order to make development on projects easier I often automate common tasks with Makefiles. For example, a common work flow for a Python project is:

git clone project
cd project
make
make run

The makefile will generate a virtualenv, install project dependencies and create initial configuration files. Make run will start a temporary web server and keep it running so that I can work on the code and view the project in my browser.

As it turns out, some of my projects are getting more complex because instead of just launching a web server they might also need to launch more than one process to serve an app.

For example, I might need to run mongodb and the Django development server. I don't care about the output of mongodb, but I would like to see the output of the Django dev server. Or possibly want to run sass and have it watch files, compiling them whenever they change, and also run a nodejs app to serve content. Ideally, when I hit ctrl+c everything shuts down orderly.

Any suggestions on how to keep things simple and run a couple tasks at once?

Here is a simple example of a Makefile I use:

PIP=env/bin/pip
MANAGE=env/bin/python ./manage.py

all: build syncdb

syncdb:
        $(MANAGE) syncdb --noinput
        $(MANAGE) migrate

build:
        $(PIP) install -r requirements.txt

run:
        $(MANAGE) runserver 0.0.0.0:8000


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