# 使用 Homebrew, Nix 安装 foreman

查看 foreman 的安装路径、可执行文件、元数据以及面向 AI 代理工作流的安全说明。

## 安装

```sh
sudo av install brew:foreman
```

其他安装命令:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install foreman
```

  证据: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#foreman
```

  证据: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fo/foreman/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## 软件包事实

- **软件包键:** brew:foreman
- **软件包管理器:** Homebrew
- **版本:** 0.90.0
- **来源摘要:** Manage Procfile-based applications
- **主页:** <https://ddollar.github.io/foreman/>
- **仓库:** <https://github.com/ddollar/foreman>
- **最后更新:** 2026-06-06T20:56:44-04:00
- **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 可执行文件

- foreman (别名)

## 安装行为

- Bottle: 不可用

## 版本和新鲜度

- 页面生成时间: 2026-08-03
- 管理器版本: 0.90.0
## 项目历史与用法

Foreman is a Ruby command-line process manager for Procfile-based applications. It is best known for making the Heroku-style Procfile a local-development and deployment artifact outside Heroku itself.

### 项目历史

David Dollar introduced Foreman in May 2011 as a way to start multi-process web applications from a Procfile, covering web, worker, and clock processes with shared environment handling and automatic port assignment.

The project grew beyond local development by adding export targets for process supervisors. Its manual documents running an app directly, running one-off commands, and exporting process definitions to formats such as init, upstart, systemd, runit, and supervisord.

### 采用历史

Foreman's README points users to installation as a Ruby gem and warns Ruby users not to bundle Foreman inside an application's Gemfile, reflecting its role as a developer tool around an application rather than a library dependency.

The README's ports list shows the Procfile-runner idea spreading into other languages and ecosystems, including forego, node-foreman, goreman, honcho, shoreman, and other reimplementations.

### 使用方式

Foreman reads a Procfile, loads environment from .env by default or from files passed with --env, starts each declared process, prefixes output, and can scale process counts with formation options.

Package users typically install the foreman executable and keep Procfile and .env files in the application root, making it a bridge between twelve-factor app conventions, local shells, and service managers.

### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心

Foreman is historically important because it helped normalize Procfile as a portable, package-manager-distributed convention rather than only a Heroku deployment file.

It is also a small example of a package whose interface became a pattern: many later packages are not forks of Foreman, but compatibility ports of the same Procfile workflow.

### 时间线

- 2011: David Dollar publishes the Introducing Foreman post and documents Procfile-based local process startup.
- 2011: The changelog records 0.26.x and 0.27.0 releases with .env loading and Travis CI configuration.
- 2012: Early releases add and refine concurrency, root directory handling, and one-off command execution.
- 2016: The changelog records systemd exporter work and related service-management fixes.
- 2024: Foreman 0.88.0 refreshes CI and updates documentation for systemd export.
- 2025: Foreman 0.90.0 is released with Ruby dependency updates.

### Related projects

- Forego, goreman, node-foreman, honcho, shoreman, proclet, and other ports listed by the upstream README reuse Foreman's Procfile-runner model in other languages or shell environments.
- Foreman is related to platform Procfile conventions used by Heroku-style applications and to Unix service managers such as systemd, upstart, runit, and supervisord through its export functionality.

### 来源

- <https://blog.daviddollar.org/2011/05/06/introducing-foreman.html>
- <https://ddollar.github.io/foreman/>
- <https://github.com/ddollar/foreman>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ddollar/foreman/main/Changelog.md>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ddollar/foreman/master/README.md>


## 安全说明

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- **Geiger 风险:** 绿色 / 低
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ./Procfile, ./.env
## 其他软件包管理器记录

- Nix - foreman: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fo/foreman/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## 相关链接

- [foreman](https://pkg.so/zh-hans/pkg/npm/foreman/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/foreman.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/foreman.yml)


## 来源

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph