Starting and stopping MySQL on Mac OS X Leopard

sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start
sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM stop

Reference: Simplistic Complexity

Long running processes

In our application, we've got number of long running processes. These processes are meant to run in background without affecting the application response time. We are using the combination of starling and workling.

For installing starling-starling:
gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/
gem install starling-starling