How to monitor delayed_job with monit

Question

Are there any examples on the web of how to monitor delayed_job with Monit?

Everything I can find uses God, but I refuse to use God since long running processes in

Answer 1

For what it's worth, you can always use /usr/bin/env with monit to setup the environment. This is especially important in the current version of delayed_job, 1.8.4, where the environment (-e) option is deprecated.

check process delayed_job with pidfile /var/app/shared/pids/delayed_job.pid
start program = "/usr/bin/env RAILS_ENV=production /var/app/current/script/delayed_job start"
stop  program = "/usr/bin/env RAILS_ENV=production /var/app/current/script/delayed_job stop"

In some cases, you may also need to set the PATH with env, too.