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

Since i didn't want to run as root, I ended up creating a bash init script that monit used for starting and stopping (PROGNAME would be the absolute path to script/delayed_job):

start() {
    echo "Starting $PROGNAME"
    sudo -u $USER /usr/bin/env HOME=$HOME RAILS_ENV=$RAILS_ENV $PROGNAME start
}

stop() {
    echo "Stopping $PROGNAME"
    sudo -u $USER /usr/bin/env HOME=$HOME RAILS_ENV=$RAILS_ENV $PROGNAME stop
}