How to Make Nginx Know About Rails Code Changes

Question

If I serve my application using "Rails s" when the application code changes, the application also changes. Now I use Nginx and passenger, how can I reproduce this behavior, at least in the development environment?

Answer 1

You really want to restart Passenger, not nginx. Create a file tmp/restart.txtin the root directory of the Rails application. To reload touch tmp/restart.txt. The passenger will notice the change and reload of the file.