module Demon; end # intelligent fork based demonizer class Demon::Base def self.start(count) @demons ||= {} count.times do |i| (@demons["#{prefix}_#{i}"] ||= new(i)).start end end def self.stop return unless @demons @demons.values.each do |demon| demon.stop end end def initialize(index) @index = index @pid = nil @parent_pid = Process.pid @monitor = nil end def pid_file "#{Rails.root}/tmp/pids/#{self.class.prefix}_#{@index}.pid" end def stop if @monitor @monitor.kill @monitor.join @monitor = nil end if @pid Process.kill("HUP",@pid) @pid = nil end end def start if existing = already_running? # should not happen ... so kill violently Process.kill("TERM",existing) end return if @pid if @pid = fork write_pid_file monitor_child return end monitor_parent establish_app after_fork end def already_running? if File.exists? pid_file pid = File.read(pid_file).to_i if alive?(pid) return pid end end nil end private def monitor_child @monitor ||= Thread.new do while true sleep 5 unless alive?(@pid) STDERR.puts "#{@pid} died, restarting the process" @pid = nil start end end end end def write_pid_file FileUtils.mkdir_p(Rails.root + "tmp/pids") File.open(pid_file,'w') do |f| f.write(@pid) end end def delete_pid_file File.delete(pid_file) end def monitor_parent Thread.new do while true unless alive?(@parent_pid) Process.kill "QUIT", Process.pid end sleep 1 end end end def alive?(pid) begin Process.getpgid(pid) true rescue Errno::ESRCH false end end def establish_app ActiveRecord::Base.connection_handler.clear_active_connections! ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection $redis.client.reconnect Rails.cache.reconnect MessageBus.after_fork Signal.trap("HUP") do begin delete_pid_file ensure exit end end # keep stuff simple for now $stdout.reopen("/dev/null", "w") $stderr.reopen("/dev/null", "w") end def after_fork end end