Restart Ruby without restarting the server

Question

I need to reload some files for ruby on my server, how do i restart ruby as it isnt a daemon?

Answer 1

If something isn't running continually, then when it next starts it will read the new files. My crystal ball suggests you're actually referring to a Passenger instance; that is a daemon, but it's one that is "slaved" to Apache. If you restart Apache, that should do the trick, however Rails (and Passenger) is supposed to have some sort of auto-reloading shenanigan going on, but I guess that isn't working (or you're missing something).

Answer 2

Restart Rails application under Passenger:

touch /path/to/your/app/tmp/restart.txt

http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html#_redeploying_restarting_the_ruby_on_rails_application