I have a Rails app served via Phusion Passenger and Nginx. I made some changes to both the server and the client side code, recompiled the production assets with bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production, and attempted to restart both nginx and phusion with the following:
# stop then restart nginx
sudo kill $(cat /opt/nginx/logs/nginx.pid)
sudo /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx
# restart passenger
passenger-config restart-app
However, when I clear my browser cache and rerequest my host address, I see phusion and nginx are still serving the old JavaScript assets, rather than the JS assets I just compiled.
How can I stop then restart the rails server and serve the updated server and client side code? Any help others can offer on this question would be greatly appreciated.
It turned out my server had two versions of nginx installed. I needed to restart the version of nginx hosting my app with:
sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/nginx restart