eddiezane/lunchy

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3000 stars · 114 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Lunchy is a friendly Ruby-based wrapper around macOS's launchctl that simplifies managing launchd agents with simple commands like start, stop, and ls using substring patterns. It replaces verbose launchctl invocations with concise, developer-friendly commands.

Use cases

• start a redis launchd agent without typing the full plist path
• list installed launchd services matching a pattern
• restart a background service on macOS from the terminal
• install and uninstall launchd plists easily
• check status of launchd agents with a simple command

When to choose

• you manage launchd agents on macOS and find launchctl verbose and unfriendly
• you want pattern-based matching instead of exact plist filenames
• you prefer simple terminal commands for starting and stopping services

When to avoid

• you are on Linux or Windows where launchd does not exist
• you need advanced launchctl features like GUI session targeting or bootstrap/enable
• you need actively maintained tooling with recent releases

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

cli developer-tools configuration-management developer-tools operating-systems cli launchctl launchd macos-services ruby-gem plist command-line macos

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