Resque + God + Capistrano

Attached is a working config to deploy an application with Capistrano Show archive.org snapshot that needs to monitor Resque Show archive.org snapshot workers with God Show archive.org snapshot .

God will run as the deployment user, no need to register it as a system service.

Put this into your config/deploy.rb:

namespace :god do
  def god_is_running
    !capture("#{god_command} status >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || echo 'not running'").start_with?('not running')
  end

  def god_command
    "cd #{current_path}; bundle exec god"
  end

  desc "Stop god"
  task :terminate_if_running do
    if god_is_running
      run "#{god_command} terminate"
    end
  end

  desc "Start god"
  task :start do
    config_file = "#{current_path}/config/resque.god"
    environment = { :RAILS_ENV => rails_env, :RAILS_ROOT => current_path }
    run "#{god_command} -c #{config_file}", :env => environment
  end
end

before "deploy:update", "god:terminate_if_running"
after "deploy:update", "god:start"

Put the attached resque.god config into your applications config directory.

You can adjust the number of workers there.