Capistrano recipe for restarting Rails background process with Monit

capistrano_monit_rails_background_restart.rb

namespace :background do
  task :restart do
    run "[ -f #{shared_path}/pids/background.pid ] && kill `cat #{shared_path}/pids/background.pid`"
    sudo "monit start app_background"
  end
end

after "deploy", "background:restart"