[api] Added ctime property to forever instances to track uptime

bin/forever

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 var path = require('path'),
     fs = require('fs'),
+    eyes = require('eyes'),
     sys  = require('sys');
 
 var accepts = ['start', 'stop', 'stopall', 'list', 'cleanlogs'], action;
@@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ if (typeof options['max'] === 'undefined') {
 
 // Setup configurations for forever
 var config = {
-  root: argv.p
+  root: argv.p || forever.path
 };
 
 function tryStart (callback) {
@@ -115,10 +116,16 @@ function tryStart (callback) {
   });
 }
 
+// Log starting...
+sys.puts('Loading forever with config: ');
+eyes.inspect(config)
+
 var loader = forever.load(config);
 loader.on('load', function () {  
+  sys.puts('Loaded forever. Cleaning logs...');
   var tidy = forever.cleanUp(action === 'cleanlogs'); 
   tidy.on('cleanUp', function () {
+    sys.puts('Cleaned logs. Running action: ' + action.yellow);
     if (action) {
       switch (action) {
         case 'start': 

lib/forever.js

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ var fs = require('fs'),
     path = require('path'),
     events = require('events'),
     exec = require('child_process').exec,
+    timespan = require('timespan'),
     daemon = require('daemon');
 
 var forever = exports, config;
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ var forever = exports, config;
 // Export `version` and important Prototypes from `lib/forever/*`
 //
 forever.version = [0, 4, 0];
+forever.path    = path.join('/tmp', 'forever');
 forever.Forever = forever.Monitor = require('forever/monitor').Monitor; 
 
 //
@@ -33,7 +35,7 @@ forever.Forever = forever.Monitor = require('forever/monitor').Monitor;
 forever.load = function (options, callback) {
   var emitter = new events.EventEmitter();
   options         = options || {};
-  options.root    = options.root || path.join('/tmp', 'forever'),
+  options.root    = options.root || forever.path,
   options.pidPath = options.pidPath || path.join(options.root, 'pids');
   forever.config  = config = options;
 
@@ -82,10 +84,10 @@ forever.start = function (script, options) {
 // #### @options {Object} Configuration for forever instance.
 // Starts a script with forever as a daemon
 //
-forever.startDaemon = function (file, options) {
+forever.startDaemon = function (script, options) {
   options.logFile = path.join(config.root, options.logFile || 'forever.log');
   options.pidFile = path.join(config.pidPath, options.pidFile);
-  var runner = new forever.Monitor(file, options);
+  var runner = new forever.Monitor(script, options);
 
   daemon.daemonize(options.logFile, options.pidFile, function (err, pid) {
     if (err) return runner.emit('error', err);
@@ -339,6 +341,7 @@ function formatProcess (proc, index, padding) {
     .concat(proc.options.map(function (opt) { return opt.green }))
     .concat([padding + '[' + proc.pid + ',', proc.foreverPid + ']'])
     .concat(proc.logFile.magenta)
+    .concat(timespan.fromDates(new Date(proc.ctime), new Date()).toString().yellow)
     .join(' ');
 };
 

lib/forever/monitor.js

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 var sys = require('sys'),
     fs = require('fs'),
+    path = require('path'),
     events = require('events'),
     spawn = require('child_process').spawn,
     forever = require('forever');
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ Monitor.prototype.start = function (restart) {
     return this;
   }
 
+  this.ctime = Date.now();
   this.child = child;
   this.running = true;
   self.emit(restart ? 'restart' : 'start', self);
@@ -163,6 +165,7 @@ Monitor.prototype.save = function () {
   }
 
   var childData = {
+    ctime: this.ctime,
     pid: this.child.pid,
     foreverPid: process.pid,
     logFile: this.logFile,

package.json

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
     "colors": ">= 0.3.0",
     "daemon": ">= 0.3.0",
     "optimist": ">= 0.0.6",
+    "timespan": ">= 2.0.0",
     "vows": ">= 0.5.2"
   },
   "bin": { "forever": "./bin/forever" },