I mentioned yesterday that I’d elaborate on how to extend our app.god config so that god process monitoring automatically becomes aware of our changes. Well for those that can’t wait, Graham who I pair with on the majority of my work beat me to the punch with with his post on Monitoring BackgroundRB with God. And at the end of the day English is his native language, so it’s probably an easier read (I speak Australian).

Following on from my post yesterday explaining how to let god automatically detect any new rails apps is few capistrano and config tweaks. This time the changes will let nginx use the same config file we created to so that setting up a new upstream and rails config is as simple as a call to deploy:setup in capistrano.

If you’re anything like me, you’re not a big one for shelling out needless money to host the various development sites your working on. That inevitably means you’ll end up with a whole host of small applications running on the one server, each needing a mongrel or two, and of course you want to make sure they are up and running. Thanks to the wonder that is ruby (and god) we can easily set it up to automatically become aware of any new apps we deploy via capistrano.