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Foreman in Go for Procfile-based application management. Version 20180216151118 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

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Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install forego

local Homebrew formula metadata

overview

Package summary

Foreman in Go for Procfile-based application management

Commands and aliases

  • forego

history

Project history and usage

forego is a small Go implementation of Foreman-style Procfile process management. Its README describes it simply as 'Foreman in Go' and demonstrates starting multiple named processes from a Procfile.

Project history

The official README is deliberately sparse: it identifies David Dollar's Foreman as the model, points to downloadable builds, and shows source installation with Go. The repository tag list contains a 0.x release series ending at v0.16.1.

Adoption history

forego fits the Heroku/Procfile development pattern: packages install one executable, projects carry a Procfile, and developers use a local supervisor to run web and worker processes with prefixed output.

How it is used

A project writes process entries such as 'web: bin/web start -p $PORT' and 'worker: bin/worker queue=FOO' in Procfile, then runs forego start. The README directs users to forego help and per-command help for details.

Why package nerds care

forego is significant as a tiny, compiled alternative to Ruby Foreman for Procfile-based app development. For package managers it is a low-dependency Go binary that preserves a well-known developer workflow.

Timeline

  • 2015: README license line credits David Dollar and Apache 2.0.
  • v0.16.1: official Git tags show the latest listed 0.x tag.

Related projects

  • The README explicitly relates forego to ddollar/foreman and to the Procfile convention used by multi-process web applications.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

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local files

Configuration and credential file locations

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Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
./Procfile

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
foregocliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version20180216151118
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/ddollar/forego

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
  • infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/ddollar/foregonone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:forego
Version20180216151118
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/forego
Homepagehttps://github.com/ddollar/forego
Repositoryhttps://github.com/ddollar/forego
Upstream docshttps://github.com/ddollar/forego
LicenseApache-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/ddollar/forego/archive/refs/tags/20180216151118.tar.gz
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameforego
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • goresymShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go, process-management, process-manager.
  • foremanShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, process-management, process-manager, procfile.
  • hivemindShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, process-management, process-manager, procfile.
  • honchoShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, process-management, process-manager, procfile.
  • overmindShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go, process-manager, procfile.
  • auroraShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment