chef

https://github.com/opscode/chef

Ruby

A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

Suck the pid out of pid_file
==== Returns
Integer::
  The PID from pid_file
nil::
  Returned if the pid_file does not exist.

git clone [email protected]:opscode/chef.git
cd chef
open lib/chef/daemon.rb

# Make a new branch

git checkout -b -your-name--update-docs-Chef--Daemon-pid_from_file-for-pr

# Commit to git

git add lib/chef/daemon.rbgit commit -m "better docs for Chef::Daemon.pid_from_file"

# Open pull request

gem install hub # on a mac you can `brew install hub`

hub fork

git push <your name> -your-name--update-docs-Chef--Daemon-pid_from_file-for-pr

hub pull-request

# Celebrate!