joxxoxo / passenger-initscript

Manage multiple passenger instances

Passenger initscript

Goals

• bash script
• muliple passenger standalone instances
• rvm support
• yaml application configuration

Installation

cd /etc/init.d
sudo wget https://github.com/railsware/passenger-initscript/raw/master/passenger
sudo chmod +x passenger

sudo /etc/init.d/passenger setup

sudo cp /etc/passenger.d/example.yml.disabled /etc/passenger.d/app1.yml
sudo cp /etc/passenger.d/example.yml.disabled /etc/passenger.d/app2.yml
...

Edit configurations according to your needs.

Configuration file sample

/etc/passenger/blog.yml

rvm: ruby-1.9.2@example
cwd: /var/apps/blog/current
user: deploy
port: 8080
environment: production
max-pool-size: 4
min-instances: 1
pid-file: /var/apps/blog/current/tmp/pids/passenger.pid
log-file: /var/apps/blog/current/log/passenger.log

Usage

Start all applications

sudo /etc/init.d/passenger start

Stop all applications

sudo /etc/init.d/passenger stop

Restart all applications

sudo /etc/init.d/passenger restart

Reload all applications

sudo /etc/init.d/passenger reload

Get applications status

sudo /etc/init.d/passenger status

Start certain applications

sudo /etc/init.d/passenger start blog forum

Stop certain applications

sudo /etc/init.d/passenger stop blog forum

Restart certain applications

sudo /etc/init.d/passenger restart blog forum

Reload certain applications

sudo /etc/init.d/passenger restart blog forum

Get status for certain applications

sudo /etc/init.d/passenger status blog forum

Enable application

sudo /etc/init.d/passenger enable blog

Disable application

sudo /etc/init.d/passenger disable blog

Notes

• restart command stops and then starts passenger instances
• reload or upgrade command graceful replaces passenger workers