Comments on: Passenger with nginx on Mac OS X

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:11:12 +0000

ZachZ: I just posted a new guide here: http://trevorturk.com/2010/09/22/passenger-with-n...

By: ZachZ

ZachZ — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:45:07 +0000

You shouldn't put the nginx.plist file into the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ directory. It's reserved for Apple's OS-level service stuff.

Instead put your plists into /Library/LaunchDaemons/

By: Let’s have fun: Rails 2.3.5 + nginx + Passenger on a G4 Cube with Tiger « hugo.frappier

Sat, 01 May 2010 22:16:21 +0000

[...] let’s create a script to automatically start nginx (thanks to Trevor for some [...]

By: Alex Kirmse

Alex Kirmse — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:43:43 +0000

jason, create the file tmp/always_restart.txt in your application’s root folder: 7.6. Making the application restart after each request http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20gui...

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:48:33 +0000

tim p: if you restart, it should be working. If not, please follow up in this forum and I'll see if I can help: http://eldorado.heroku.com/

By: tim p

tim p — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:51:31 +0000

ok, so i've loaded nginx successfully and updated conf file, etc. doubled checked my path settings, and when i run sudo nginx i get a command not found error message…

any thoughts on what i am missing?

By: Hongli Lai

Hongli Lai — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:52:01 +0000

Jason, your problem is not caused by Phusion Passenger, but by Rails. As of version 2.2 or something, Rails caches view templates when run in production mode, for increased performance. If you don't want the view templates to be cached then you need to turn off view template caching; there's an option for that somewhere.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:57:24 +0000

Hongli, thanks for the clarification. I wasn't sure why it was needed, but it didn't work without it for me

jason, I'm not sure. Maybe somebody else will come along and let us both know. I haven't done much development work with nginx, but maybe I'll run into the same problem, too.

By: jason

jason — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:48:16 +0000

Is there a way to get Passenger/NGINX to reload automatically when a controller or view is changed?

Passenger/Apache does this fine, but have not had any luck with NGINX. Best I can find is to touch the reload text file, which is a real pain.

By: Hongli Lai

Hongli Lai — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:06:41 +0000

Oh, after reading the ruby-forum post I think the 'daemon off' is only necessary when you're using it in combination with launchd. launchd probably monitors the process until it exits; if Nginx daemonizes then launchd thinks it exited, and tries to restart it. But the old Nginx was still running in the background so the new one fails to start.