ForemanGod

Monitor Procfiles with God.

Install the gem on the machine running god - there is no need to include it as a dependency in your project.

$ gem install foreman_god

To run the sample:

god -D -c sample.god

Or with your own Procfile, add the following to your god configuration file:

require 'foreman_god'

ForemanGod.watch File.dirname(__FILE__) # Or an absolute path to the folder containing the Procfile

To set environment variables, add an .env file in next to the Procfile.

To specify foreman options, add a .foreman file next to the Procfile.

See samples/configuration for a complete example.

If present, the tmp/restart.txt file in your project is watched for changes. If this file is modified, for example with touch tmp/restart.txt, all workers are restarted.

If present, the tmp/stop.txt file will stop all workers. If it is removed, the workers will start.

When the Procfile (or .env or .foreman files) changed, use god load <god config> stop to reload the config files. The stop action tells god to stop any processes that were removed from the Procfile (available since god 0.12.0, but not documented at the time of writing).

To run god itself with RVM, use a wrapper script as explained at https://rvm.io/integration/god/.

Using RVM is tricky when running God as root. Often you would want to run the commands in a different environment from god (different user, different Ruby, different gems, etc).

The simplest way to tell ForemanGod to run your processes with RVM, is to specify rvm: default in your .foreman config file. This tells ForemanGod to use the "default" Ruby version to run the script. Alternatively you can specify a specific ruby version or gemset, for example rvm: ruby-1.9.3-p194 or rvm: ruby-1.9.3-p194@global.

Technically this loads the environment for the ruby/gemset version, which is found in either ~/.rvm/environments/<version> or /usr/local/rvm/<version>. This is similar to the approach for Cron scripts.

On each deployment, God needs to reload the configuration. Restarting of the processes happen with the tmp/restart.txt solution explained earlier, which you already do if you're using Passenger.

Use a task like the following to reload the configuration (see Reloading the Procfile above):

namespace :god do
  task :reload do
    # Replace the god command and config file here with the ones used on your server
    run("god load /etc/god/master.god stop")
  end
end

before "deploy:restart", "god:reload"

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request