rewrite BrowserStackLocal spawning to be better #37
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Right now, the spawning uses
IO.popenand has a bunch of workarounds to support Ruby 1.8. This is pretty bad.Ruby 1.8 has been EOL for more than 10 years. I don't think we need to support it any more.
This rewrites the process spawning to use Stripe's excellent subprocess gem. It also adds a startup timeout, because right now if the
BrowserStackLocalbinary hangs for some reason, the entire program is just stuck on a.readlinecall. It also calls.waiton the child process after dæmonization succeeds, because otherwise you end up with an un-reaped defunct process sitting around forever.