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

I got mine working like so with the "daemons" gem:

commands:
  create_post_dir:
    command: "mkdir /opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/appdeploy/post"
    ignoreErrors: true
  webapp_pids:
    command: "mkdir /home/webapp/pids"
    ignoreErrors: true
files:
  "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/appdeploy/post/99_restart_delayed_job.sh":
    mode: "000755"
    owner: root
    group: root
    content: |
      #!/usr/bin/env bash
      . /opt/elasticbeanstalk/support/envvars
      chown webapp:webapp /home/webapp/pids
      su -l -c "$EB_CONFIG_APP_CURRENT/bin/delayed_job --pid-dir=/home/webapp/pids restart" $EB_CONFIG_APP_USER
      echo "worker starting" >> /var/log/directory-hooks-executor.log