passenger restart

passenger with nginx tutorial

http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Nginx.html#capistrano

3. Redeploying (restarting the Ruby on Rails application)

Deploying a new version of a Ruby on Rails application is as simple as re-uploading the application files, and restarting the application.

There are two ways to restart the application:

1. By restarting Nginx.

2. By creating or modifying the file tmp/restart.txt in the Rails application’s root folder. Phusion Passenger will automatically restart the application during the next request.

For example, to restart our example MyCook application, we type this in the command line:

touch /webapps/mycook/tmp/restart.txt

Please note that, unlike earlier versions of Phusion Passenger, restart.txt is not automatically deleted. Phusion Passenger checks whether the timestamp of this file has changed in order to determine whether the application should be restarted.