technicalpickles

module God
  module Conditions
    class RestartFileTouched < PollCondition
      attr_accessor :restart_file
      def initialize    
        super                   
      end               

      def process_start_time
        Time.parse(`ps -o lstart  -p #{self.watch.pid} --no-heading`)

bdotdub

Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

I've been trying to understand how to setup systems from the ground up on Ubuntu. I just installed redis onto the box and here's how I did it and some things to look out for.

To install:

headius

require 'rubygems'
require 'spoon'

Spoon.spawnp 'jruby', *ARGV

defunkt

# If your workers are inactive for a long period of time, they'll lose
# their MySQL connection.
#
# This hack ensures we re-connect whenever a connection is
# lost. Because, really. why not?
#
# Stick this in RAILS_ROOT/config/initializers/connection_fix.rb (or somewhere similar)
#
# From:
#   http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/activerecord-threading-issues-and-resolutions/