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From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:21:35 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add Run Dev Processes With Overmind Instead Of Foreman as a
 Rails TIL

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 For a steady stream of TILs, [sign up for my newsletter](https://visualmode.kit.com/newsletter).
 
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@@ -1167,6 +1167,7 @@ If you've learned something here, support my efforts writing daily TILs by
 - [Rounding Numbers With Precision](rails/rounding-numbers-with-precision.md)
 - [Run A Rake Task Programmatically](rails/run-a-rake-task-programmatically.md)
 - [Run Commands With Specific Rails Version](rails/run-commands-with-specific-rails-version.md)
+- [Run Dev Processes With Overmind Instead Of Foreman](rails/run-dev-processes-with-overmind-instead-of-foreman.md)
 - [Run Rails Console With Remote Dokku App](rails/run-rails-console-with-remote-dokku-app.md)
 - [Run Some Code Whenever Rails Console Starts](rails/run-some-code-whenever-rails-console-starts.md)
 - [Scaffold Auth Functionality With Rails 8 Generator](rails/scaffold-auth-functionality-with-rails-8-generator.md)
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+# Run Dev Processes With Overmind Instead Of Foreman
+
+Most Rails projects that I have worked on have used
+[`foreman`](https://github.com/ddollar/foreman) as a development dependency for
+running all the processes declared in your Procfile (`Procfile.dev`). As far as
+having a single command to run everything (Rails server, asset building,
+worker(s), etc.), it does the job.
+
+`foreman` has some serious points of friction though. The one that really stands
+out to me is that when I try to debug the development Rails server with
+`binding.irb` or `binding.pry`, the other processes tend to interfere.
+
+The alternative to `foreman` that I've been trying out recently is
+[`overmind`](https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind). A specific selling point of
+`overmind` is that it runs all the development processes in a `tmux` session.
+That means you can individually connect to, inspect, and restart each process.
+
+Once you've installed `overmind` (`brew install overmind`), then you can easily
+swap it in for `foreman` like so:
+
+```bash
+$ overmind start -f Procfile.dev
+```
+
+You can connect to any of those processes directly:
+
+```bash
+$ overmind connect sidekiq
+```
+
+When you want to `binding.irb` the Rails server, you can specifically connect to
+the `web` process to do that.
+
+```bash
+$ overmind connect web
+```
+
+If you need to stop all the process, you can run the `kill` subcommand.
+
+```bash
+$ overmind kill
+```
+
+Lastly, if you have a `bin/dev` script in your project, it is probably using
+`foreman`. If you and your team prefer `overmind`, then update that script
+accordingly and you can simply run `bin/dev` going forward.