Hi Roy,
In a typical deployment configuration, a Rails app is normally started by a
Web server like Apache or Nginix.
If you have Apache running on the server, and you have configured it to
serve a Rails app, then simply making a Web request will trigger mod_rack
(aka Phusion Passenger) into spawning your Ruby app.
Phusion Passenger will also, under normal configuration, notice if the
"restart.txt" file had been touched and do just what you would expect.
That's why the boilerplate for restarting your app servers includes "touch
tmp/restart.txt" - it's exactly what you want under this (quite common)
configuration.
There are many other ways to run your app, but I don't want to overwhelm
you with options if you're just getting started.
Good luck!
Hunter
On 15/03/2014 8:19 AM, "Roy Miller" <r...@theotherroad.com> wrote:
> I'm running Cap 3.1.0, Rails 4.0.3, Ruby 2.1.0 on a Vagrant Virtual Box
> VM. My deploy is working fine, including the knife-solo provisioning of the
> machine. Now I need to finish things up by starting my Rails app in the
> deploy directory ... and I can't figure out how to do it. Google hasn't
> been any help so far. Makes me think I'm missing something truly basic.
>
> I see this boilerplate in my deploy.rb:
>
> after :publishing, :'start_cold'
>
> desc 'Restart application'
> task :restart do
> on roles(:app), in: :sequence, wait: 5 do
> execute :touch, release_path.join('tmp/restart.txt')
> end
> end
>
> Is that all that should be necessary to restart my Rails app? If so, it's
> not working. The server isn't running on the Vagrant box.
>
> That led me down the path of trying to grep the ps aux output and see if
> there's a running ruby process, but I wonder if I'm making it way too hard.
> The basic question is, how do I start my Rails app after a deploy? Very
> soon after that, once I'm over that hump, I'll want to know how to restart
> it after a subsequent deploy. So feel free to kill two birds with one stone
> :)
>
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