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I can't run my Rails application with daemons gem

I want to use Daemons gem with my Rails project so I can easily monitore it with Monit, this gem will allow me to create PIDs and use commands like start and stop .

Anyways it seems I can't use it with rails somehow, I create a file and named it admin :

require 'rubygems'
require 'daemons'

ROOT_PATH = File.expand_path("#{File.dirname __FILE__}/../")

require "#{ROOT_PATH}/config/environment"

Daemons.run("#{ROOT_PATH}/script/rails" , 
    :dir_mode => :system, 
    :log_output => true 
)

When I try to run it with : 

bundle exec ./bin/admin run -- s

I get this error : 

/Users/info/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/alt_system.rb:32: Use RbConfig instead of obsolete and deprecated Config.
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 3.0.5 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
configuration /config.ru not found
Exiting

The config.ru file is there for sure. and I can run the application when I try to do it manually with command line, but for some reason I can daemonize the rails app .

I would appreciate any help since I spent all my day trying to iron this out .

Cheers

Solution

  • May it be because daemons is not running the server in your application root directory ?

    UPDATE

    To launch Rails server from another path than your root app directory, use the -c option of rails server command which need the exact path to your config.ru file.