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[Django, Gevent, SocketIO] Run script to automatically restart Gunicorn when a change is made on a python file
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding:Utf-8 -*-
import os
import shlex
import subprocess
import sys
import time
from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler
from watchdog.observers import Observer
class GunicornEventHandler(FileSystemEventHandler):
"""
Restart the gunicorn process when an event is captured.
"""
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(GunicornEventHandler, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.pid = None
self.pid_file = "/tmp/gunicorn.pid"
self.worker_class = "socketio.sgunicorn.GeventSocketIOWorker"
def get_start_cmd(self):
return "python manage.py run_gunicorn --worker-class {0} --pid {1}".format(
self.worker_class, self.pid_file)
def on_any_event(self, event):
super(GunicornEventHandler, self).on_any_event(event)
#Do the action only for python files
if event is not None and event.src_path[-3:] != ".py":
return
if self.pid:
os.kill(self.pid, 9)
time.sleep(1)
p = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(self.get_start_cmd()))
self.pid = p.pid
if __name__ == "__main__":
path = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "."
handler = GunicornEventHandler()
observer = Observer()
observer.schedule(handler, path, recursive=True)
observer.start()
#Triggers an event in order to initially launch the server
handler.on_any_event(None)
try:
while True:
time.sleep(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
observer.stop()
observer.join()
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Yukilas commented Oct 31, 2012

To use it, simply run: ./run.py path_to_project

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Thanks, works great

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