Delayed job wont start using Capistrano

Question

I cannot start delayed job process using a capistrano recipe. Here\'s the error I am getting.

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/delayed_job-2.1.1/lib/delayed/         


        

Answer 1

I also got this error and found a couple of issues:

• Ensure you have a shared/pids folder.
• Ensure you have the correct hooks setup

Your deploy.rb script should contain:

require "delayed/recipes"

after "deploy:stop", "delayed_job:stop"
after "deploy:start", "delayed_job:start"
after "deploy:restart", "delayed_job:restart"

I'd copied the hooks from an old post and they appear to be incorrect now. These are from the actual delayed_job recipe file comments.

I believe cap deploy:setup should create the pids folder but I set things up a different way and it was not created. app/current/tmp/pids links to app/shared/pids and this was causing the false directory exists error.