Dante instead of Daemons?

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If we do need a daemon executable, consider using Dante instead of Daemons. It's is simpler and can be easily incorporated into a customized executable. That way would we only need a single smeagol executable instead of both smeagol and smeagold.

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I have now tried both daemons and dante gems, and haven't been able to get either to work. Obviously I am doing something wrong. So in this, I am hopeful someone else will have a look and see if they can get things in order.

On the other hand, I also wonder how important this is. In most cases, e.g. your typical hosting provider, they have their own means of daemonizing. We just need to provide the necessary setup, like a config.ru file. So maybe the daemon server isn't actually useful enough to support?