chef

https://github.com/opscode/chef

Ruby

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

Chef::Provider::Service::Macosx#enable_service

On OS/X, enabling a service has the side-effect of starting it,
and disabling a service has the side-effect of stopping it.

This makes some sense on OS/X since launchctl is an "init"-style
supervisor that will restart daemons that are crashing, etc.

Source | Google | Stack overflow

Edit

git clone [email protected]:opscode/chef.git

cd chef

open lib/chef/provider/service/macosx.rb

Contribute

# Make a new branch

git checkout -b -your-name--update-docs-Chef--Provider--Service--Macosx-enable_service-for-pr

# Commit to git

git add lib/chef/provider/service/macosx.rbgit commit -m "better docs for Chef::Provider::Service::Macosx#enable_service"

# 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--Provider--Service--Macosx-enable_service-for-pr

hub pull-request

# Celebrate!