# Webrick flaging

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-flaging/122717>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 11, 2007, 8:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-flaging/122717 "2007-12-11T08:45:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![sealedsun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sealedsun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sealedsun)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 8:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-flaging/122717/1 "2007-12-11T08:45:23Z")

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Hey I’m running a ruby application and a webrick server in a seperate  
process.

I need to check the webrick process periodically for flags (e.g. to tell  
the server to restart or similar things).

How do i do that? webrick seems to block execution of other things in  
this process.

thx