I have deployed my rails application on EC2. It runs on two servers. One for rails application and second for DB.
When I start application using "rails s -e production&" and if I stay connected using SSH,
I can see the webpages.
As soon as I disconnect SSH I can not see the pages.
There are no errors thrown. One weird thing is "Production.log" file does not have anything.
everything is spit out on console.
You are running rails in the current ssh session. Any programs you have running during that session will stop if you disconnect. You need to set up your rails app to run as a daemon using something like Phusion Passenger.
You are basically running the built in WEBrick server that is not really meant for production so it's likely that the process is getting killed after the parent process (your ssh process) gets terminated.
You can probably tweak the configuration to make WEBrick not quit, or you can simply run your session using screen or tmux
Screen:
$ screen
$ rails s -e production &
$ screen -d
When you want to reattach:
$ screen -r
Tmux:
$ tmux
$ rails s -e production &
$ # Hit <ctrl-b><ctrl-d> to detach
When you want to reattach:
$ screen attach -t 0
Or like #datasage mentioned you can run your Rails with an actual production web server like Passenger Phusion or Unicorn.
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I have an EC2 instance on which I installed rails server. The server also runs fine when I do
rails server
But after I close the ssh connection the server also stops. How can I keep the server running even after closing the ssh connection.
screen rails s
did the trick
after that CTRL + A + D and I left and the server is running fine
Try this. We have to start rails server as daemon.
rails s -d &
run at as server means thu nginx or apache or what ever this development server not mean run as server
user this is need more info https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-rails-and-nginx-with-passenger-on-ubuntu
also if want advance sololtion use rubber https://github.com/rubber/rubber
I needed mine running everything not, just rails in the background. Install Screen which makes a sub terminal that isn't affected by your ssh connection. sudo apt-get install screen Open screen screen Then start rails rails server &.
Press 'Crtl + A' then 'D' to escape and type screen -r to get back in to the screen terminal.
I will recommend using apache or something else instead of the regular rails server but you can probably add & at the end and feel free to leave
rails server &
These steps worked for me. MY OS is Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
sudo apt-get install screen
screen rails s
CTRL + A + D from terminal to detached the existing process and let it run.
Here's a production proof version using RVM and Systemd. Will keep the server alive if it gets terminated for any reason.
[Unit]
Description=Puma Control
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
User=user
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/your_project_name
PIDFile=/var/www/your_project_name/shared/tmp/pids/puma.pid
ExecStart=/home/user/.rvm/bin/rvm default do bundle exec puma -C /var/www/your_project_name/shared/puma.rb --daemon
ExecStop=/home/user/.rvm/bin/rvm default do bundle exec pumactl -S /var/www/your_project_name/shared/tmp/pids/puma.state -F /var/www/your_project_name/shared/puma.rb stop
Restart=always
# RestartSec=10
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
I'm trying to run a ruby app (redmine) as thin webservice on Windows Server 2003. I've already read and done everything said here and here, but it still won't work. At the moment I've set:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\[my_service_name]\Parameters]
Application=c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe
AppDirectory="c:\Program Files\redmine-1.4-test"
AppParameters=c:\ruby\bin\thin start -p 3001 -e development
Running thin from command line via:
C:\Program Files\redmine-1.4-test>thin start -p 3001 -e development
works fine.
I already tested moving Redmine to a path with no spaces, which doesn't change anything.
Any idea what can be wrong? Any hints how I could track the problem down?
Make sure that you are running the new service in the account where Ruby is installed - where you can run thin normally from the command line. Edit the service from the Control Panel (services.msc) and set up the Logon tab accordingly.
I’m more or less a newb to Ruby on Rails, but I’ve been tasked with debuging a Rails app that guy that’s no longer around wrote. The app is running on a manchine using:
• Windows XP Professional
• Apache 2.2
• Rails 2.3.8
• mongrel (1.1.5 x86-mingw32)
• mongrel_service (0.3.4 i386-mswin32)
I copied the app from the server and did some debugging on it on my personal machine. I just setup a Git repository on my personal machine and cloned it back over to the server. Everything seems to be working great except mongrel_service doesn’t work anymore. Each time I try to start the service from Windows “Services” tool I get this error:
The MYAPP_Mongrel_As_Service service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts service
I tried removing the service with:
C:\MyApp>mongrel_rails service::remove --name MYAPP_Mongrel_As_Service
Stopping MYAPP_Mongrel_As_Service if running...
MYAPP_Mongrel_As_Service service removed
and reinstalling it with:
C:\MyApp>mongrel_rails service::install --name MYAPP_Mongrel_As_Service -c "C:\MyApp" --port 3001 --env
ironment production --address localhost --log "log\mongrel_as_service.log" --pid "tmp\pids\mongrel_a
s_service.pid"
MYAPP_Mongrel_As_Service service created.
But no matter how many times I try, or what options I use, I can’t get the service to run. What’s weird is that I can get mongrel to startup by itself just fine.
C:\MyApp>mongrel_rails start -c c:\MyApp --port 3001 --environment production --address localhost --
g "c:\MyApp\log\mongrel_as_service.log" --pid "C:\MyApp\tmp\pids\mongrel_as_service.pid"
** Starting Mongrel listening at localhost:3001
** Starting Rails with production environment...
** Rails loaded.
** Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins
** Signals ready. INT => stop (no restart).
** Mongrel 1.1.5 available at localhost:3001
** Use CTRL-C to stop.
It just won’t work when I try to start it as a service. I've done a lot of googling on the subject, but I can't find anything to fix the problem. It's odd that it was working before but now it doesn't. There must be something wrong with my service::install line because I can't get the original unedited Rails app to work with mongrel_as_service either.
I figured it out. It turns out that the log file for mongrel_service didn't exist on my file. To fix the problem, I just made a blank text file and renamed it to the name of my log file. It worked like a charm. It's odd that mongrel_service doesn't make it's own log file if it can't detected it, but oh well.
Hey guys
After several weeks of local testing, I'm now setting up a VPS, and try to run rails on it. At this point, I can open up a Terminal session and ssh to the VPS, run the thin start, then I the server is running ok, But as soon as I closed the terminal the thin is down.
How can I make thin server running in the VPS all the time?
another question how to change from test mode to production mode in rails.
Thanks
Demonize thin, run it with -d flag.
thin -d
For the task at hand you will want to use a tool called Screens
Install it:
sudo apt-get install screen
Then to run it you run:
screen -d executable
To put screen to background: Ctrl+D
To recall a screen: screen -r.
You should be all good now.
You don't really want to launch and stop thin by hand. You want it to be a daemon to be started when your system start and to be managed like any other daemons (e.g. nginx, syslog, sshd, etc.). How to do this is very distribution-dependent, but you should definitely have a look at /etc/init.d/ or /etc/rc.d/ and /etc/rc.conf.
To go in production mode within the command line you use thin -e production, but the preferred way should be to specify it in thin's configuration files. You should have (or create) an /etc/thin/ folder, with one .yml file for each application you're deploying.
Yet another newbie RoR question from me.
I started banging my head against a wall last night when I simply could not get my Rails app to display in my browser after installing it as a Mongrel service.
I installed it using a command like this (from the app's root directory):
mongrel_rails service::install -N MyAppName -e development -p 3000
This set up the Windows service and everything seemed to be just fine. I could start/stop the service and saw no errors in the logs. Then navigating to localhost:3000 in my browser, I was greeted with a variety of errors, none Rails-specific (all along the lines of "Could not connect to server" or the like). Consulting the log at this point revealed no obvious problems.
I could not for the life of me figure out how to get this to work. So, out of exasperation, I tried simply running the app on WEBrick instead:
ruby script/server webrick -p 3000
When I did this, my app ran perfectly! Opening my browser to localhost:3000 now displayed my front page as expected.
I should note that I have used Mongrel successfully for other apps on my local machine.
So what app-specific characteristics could be responsible for WEBrick working where Mongrel doesn't?
Just some ideas to try:
Add -c param with full path to application:
-c "C:\xxx\yyy\zzz"
Check if system-wide PATH environment variable contains ruby bin directory - maybe just user's PATH is set.
Switch service to run as your user.