Hi there,
We have to use delayed_job (or some other background-job processor) to run jobs in the background, but we're not allowed to change the boot scripts/boot-levels on the server. This means that the daemon is not guaranteed to remain available if the provider restarts the server (since the daemon would have been started by a capistrano recipe that is only run once per deployment).
Currently, the best way I can think of to ensure the delayed_job daemon is always running, is to add an initializer to our Rails application that checks if the daemon is running. If it's not running, then the initializer starts the daemon, otherwise, it just leaves it be.
The question, therefore, is how do we detect that the Delayed_Job daemon is running from inside a script? (We should be able to start up a daemon fairly easily, bit I don't know how to detect if one is already active).
Anyone have any ideas?
Regards,
Bernie
Based on the answer below, this is what I came up with. Just put it in config/initializers and you're all set:
#config/initializers/delayed_job.rb
DELAYED_JOB_PID_PATH = "#{Rails.root}/tmp/pids/delayed_job.pid"
def start_delayed_job
Thread.new do
`ruby script/delayed_job start`
end
end
def process_is_dead?
begin
pid = File.read(DELAYED_JOB_PID_PATH).strip
Process.kill(0, pid.to_i)
false
rescue
true
end
end
if !File.exist?(DELAYED_JOB_PID_PATH) && process_is_dead?
start_delayed_job
end
