How to automatically restart delayed_job when deploying a rails project on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk?

Question

I\'m hosting a rails project on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk and I try to configure a container command to automatically restart my delayed_job worker on the server after each d

Answer 1

In case anybody is looking to get delayed_job working in latest ElasticBeanstalk (64bit Amazon Linux 2014.09 v1.0.9 running Ruby 2.1 (Puma)): I got it to work using the below code (Thanks to damontorgerson). This file goes in ruby.config in .ebextensions folder.

# Install git in order to be able to bundle gems from git
packages:
yum:
  git: []

files: 
  "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/appdeploy/post/50_restart_delayed_job":
    mode: "000777"
    owner: root
    group: root
    content: |
      EB_SCRIPT_DIR=$(/opt/elasticbeanstalk/bin/get-config container -k script_dir)
      EB_APP_STAGING_DIR=$(/opt/elasticbeanstalk/bin/get-config container -k app_staging_dir)
      EB_CONFIG_APP_CURRENT=$(/opt/elasticbeanstalk/bin/get-config container -k app_deploy_dir)
      EB_CONFIG_APP_LOGS=$(/opt/elasticbeanstalk/bin/get-config container -k app_log_dir)
      EB_APP_USER=$(/opt/elasticbeanstalk/bin/get-config container -k app_user)
      EB_SUPPORT_DIR=$(/opt/elasticbeanstalk/bin/get-config container -k support_dir)
      EB_CONFIG_APP_PIDS=$(/opt/elasticbeanstalk/bin/get-config container -k app_pid_dir)

      . $EB_SUPPORT_DIR/envvars
      . $EB_SCRIPT_DIR/use-app-ruby.sh

      cd $EB_CONFIG_APP_CURRENT

      . $EB_SUPPORT_DIR/envvars.d/sysenv

      bin/delayed_job --pid-dir=/var/tmp restart