Maybe the capitalization should be 'RunIt?' Talking about 'Runit' and Ruby makes me think that it's a unit testing framework...

runit's a wonderful tool. Those interested in using it with ruby might want to take a look at the bunch of configurable runit services I use to reliably run several busy Rails sites: https://github.com/purcell/rails-runit

I also wrote an introduction to runit's process supervision scheme here: http://www.sanityinc.com/articles/init-scripts-considered-ha...

Cool name! Read it like run-it, and it just re-inforces the fact:D...