I am using Capistrano to deploy my Rails application. whenever I deploy, changes would not be reflected on the browser, and I still need to restart nginx to update the site (running sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart). I'm not really sure why but isn't it supposed to be updated after restarting application? (using touch /app/tmp/restart.txt)
Here's my deploy.rb
require "rvm/capistrano"
set :rvm_ruby_string, 'ruby-1.9.3-p194@app_name'
set :rvm_type, :user
require "bundler/capistrano"
set :application, "app_name"
set :user, "me"
set :deploy_to, "/home/#{user}/#{application}"
set :deploy_via, :copy
set :use_sudo, false
set :scm, :git
set :repository, "~/Sites/#{application}/.git"
set :branch, "master"
role :web, '1.2.3.4'
role :app, '1.2.3.4'
role :db, '1.2.3.4', :primary => true
role :db, '1.2.3.4'
namespace :deploy do
task :start do ; end
task :stop do ; end
task :restart, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do
run "#{try_sudo} touch #{File.join(current_path,'tmp','restart.txt')}"
end
end
Best Answer
You shouldn't have to restart or reload nginx. Just touching tmp/restart.txt should be enough to tell passenger to reload the app.
If you're using a recent version of capistrano, you can even drop entire 'namespace :deploy' part. Capistrano already touches tmp/restart.txt after a successful deploy.