I haven’t used unicorn as an app server, but I’ve used god for monitoring before. If I remember rightly when you start god and give your config file, it automatically starts whatever you’ve told it to watch. Unicorn is probably already running, which is why it’s throwing the error. Check this by running god status … Read more
God leaks memory pretty badly so I chose Monit for my VPS. Monit runs at about 2MB of RAM constantly, whereas my god install running on Ruby 1.8.6 leaked out to about 60MB of RAM in about 36 hours. I didn’t want to monitor my system monitoring tool so I scrapped God and went over … Read more
Here is how I got this working. Use the collectiveidea fork of delayed_job besides being actively maintained, this version has a nice script/delayed_job daemon you can use with monit. Railscasts has a good episode about this version of delayed_job (ASCIICasts version). This script also has some other nice features, like the ability to run multiple … Read more