From 57273ea5485093612107fcfe63a618fc5b7751d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Halliday <substack@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:30:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] updated the readme with non-node usage and an example

---
 README.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 92b6fde9..116f3480 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ You can also use forever from inside your own node.js code.
 <pre>
   var forever = require('forever');
   
-  var child = new (forever.Forever)('your-filename.js'), {
+  var child = new (forever.Forever)('your-filename.js', {
     max: 3,
     silent: true,
     options: []
@@ -71,6 +71,18 @@ You can also use forever from inside your own node.js code.
   child.start();
 </pre>
 
+### Spawning a non-node process
+You can spawn non-node processes too. Either set the `command` key in the
+`options` hash or pass in an `Array` in place of the `file` argument like this:
+
+<pre>
+  var forever = require('forever');
+  var child = forever.start([ 'perl', '-le', 'print "moo"' ], {
+    max : 1,
+    silent : true
+  });
+</pre>
+
 ### Options available when using Forever in node.js
 There are several options that you should be aware of when using forever:
 
@@ -83,6 +95,8 @@ There are several options that you should be aware of when using forever:
     'pidFile': 'path/to/file',  // Path to put pid information for the process(es) started
     'outFile': 'path/to/file',  // Path to log output from child stdout
     'errFile': 'path/to/file',  // Path to log output from child stderr
+    'command': 'perl',          // Binary to run (default: 'node')
+    'options': ['foo','bar'],   // Additional arguments to pass to the script
   }
 </pre>
 
@@ -127,4 +141,4 @@ The test coverage for 0.3.0 is currently lacking, but will be improved in 0.3.1.
 #### Contributors: [Fedor Indutny](http://github.com/donnerjack13589)
 
 [0]: http://nodejitsu.com
-[1]: https://github.com/indexzero/forever/blob/master/bin/forever
\ No newline at end of file
+[1]: https://github.com/indexzero/forever/blob/master/bin/forever