# this is a trivial graceful restart on touch of tmp/restart. # # It simply drains all the requests (waits up to 4 seconds) and issues a HUP # if you need a more sophisticated cycling restart for multiple thins it will need to be written # # This works fine for Discourse.org cause we host our app accross multiple machines, if you hosting # on a single machine you have a trickier problem at hand as you need to cycle the processes in order Thread.new do file = "#{Rails.root}/tmp/restart" old_time = File.ctime(file).to_i if File.exists? file wait_seconds = 4 if $PROGRAM_NAME =~ /thin/ while true time = File.ctime(file).to_i if File.exists? file if old_time != time Rails.logger.info "attempting to reload #{$$} #{$PROGRAM_NAME} in #{wait_seconds} seconds" $shutdown = true sleep wait_seconds Rails.logger.info "restarting #{$$}" Process.kill("HUP", $$) break end sleep 1 end end end