Starting delayed_job at startup

Question

I'm using delayed_job with capistrano and would like a way to start delayed_job on startup of the web application using the 'script/delayed_job start'. This way capistrano can restart it on deploy. If the server gets rebooted then my delayed_jobs should start up with the project.

How can I do this? Should I be looking at doing this in the environment files or as an initializer?

Answer 1

You should create one recipe with the restart command.

namespace :delayed_job do 
    desc "Restart the delayed_job process"
    task :restart, :roles => :app do
        run "cd #{current_path}; RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} script/delayed_job restart"
    end
end

Then you add it to be executed at the end of your deployment.

after "deploy:update_code", "delayed_job:restart"

Answer 2

It's possible to boot & monitor delayed_job with monit:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1226302/how-to-monitor-delayed-job-with-monit