RAILS_ROOT and USR2 restarts

[Ian Leitch <port001@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I've just started using Unicorn in production behind Nginx with a
Rails app, for the most part its been a smooth transition apart from
this one issue.
When I do an in place restart (USR2), the restart process works but
the workers load my old Rails release, not the new one. I'm guessing
that because the master process is currently in the old release
directory, when I signal USR2 it's just reloading inside the current
directory. I'm deploying with Capistrano, so app/current is a symlink
to a specific release. I've tried changing to the new release
directory in before_work but that made no difference. Is there a
callback that fires before the master preloads the app?

worker_processes 6
preload_app true
timeout 60
listen "/tmp/unicorn.production.sock"
pid "/tmp/unicorn.production.pid"

before_fork do |server, worker|
  Dir.chdir("/var/www/apps/systino_production/current")
  old_pid = "/tmp/unicorn.#{RAILS_ENV}.pid.oldbin"
  if File.exists?(old_pid) && server.pid != old_pid
    begin
      Process.kill("QUIT", File.read(old_pid).to_i)
    rescue Errno::ENOENT, Errno::ESRCH
      # someone else did our job for us
    end
  end
end

after_fork do |server, worker|
  ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection
end


I also have a little launcher script (I'm using Solaris - SMF doesn't
let me provide a custom restart routine, so I have to bypass it and
use this script):


#!/usr/bin/ruby
$rails_env = ARGV[0]
$pid_file = "/tmp/unicorn.#{$rails_env}.pid"
def restart(pid)
  system("kill -USR2 #{pid}")
end
def start
  system("/opt/local/bin/unicorn_rails -c config/unicorn.rb -E
#{$rails_env} -D")
end
if File.exists?($pid_file)
  pid = File.read($pid_file).strip.to_i
  begin
    Process.kill(0, pid)
  rescue Errno::ESRCH
    # Not running
    start
  else
    restart(pid)
  end
else
  start
end


At the end of the deploy I execute:


task :restart_unicorn do
  run "cd #{current_path}; ruby config/unicorn_launcher.rb #{rails_env}"
end
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