Sidekiq Upstart

sidekiq.conf

description "Sidekiq Background Worker"

start on filesystem
stop on runlevel [06]

respawn
respawn limit 3 30

# change to match your deployment user
setuid deploy
setgid deploy

script
# this script runs in /bin/sh by default
# respawn as bash so we can source in rbenv
exec /bin/bash <<EOT
  # use syslog for logging
  exec &> /dev/kmsg

  export HOME=/home/deploy
  source /home/deploy/.bash_profile
  cd /home/deploy/{site_name}/current

  bin/sidekiq -e production -C config/sidekiq.yml -i 0 -P tmp/pids/sidekiq.pid
EOT
end script