Using God to monitor Unicorn - Start exited with non-zero code = 1

Question

I am working on a God script to monitor my Unicorns. I started with GitHub\'s examples script and have been modifying it to match my server configuration. Once God is runn

Answer 1

Add the log option has helped me greatly in debugging.

God.watch do |w|
  w.log = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/log/god.log"

  # remainder of config
end

In the end, my bug turned out to be the start_script in God was executed in development environment. I fixed this by appending the RAILS_ENV to the start script.

start_script = "RAILS_ENV=#{ENV['RACK_ENV']} bundle exec sidekiq -P #{pid_file} -C #{config_file} -L #{log_file} -d"