PM2 First of all, I would highly recommend installing PM2 for Node.js. PM2 is really great at handling crash and monitoring Node apps as well as load balancing. PM2 immediately starts the Node app whenever it crashes, stops for any reason or even when server restarts. So, if someday even after managing our code, app … Read more
Option 1: syslog + logrotate You can configure rails, to use the systems log tools. An example in config/environments/production.rb. # Use a different logger for distributed setups config.logger = SyslogLogger.new That way, you log to syslog, and can use default logrotate tools to rotate the logs. Option 2: normal Rails logs + logrotate Another option … Read more
This would now be rails server -e production Or, more compact rails s -e production It works for rails 3+ projects.
I wrote that bit of the guide. You definitely do not want to live compile in production. When you have compile on, this is what happens: Every request for a file in /assets is passed to Sprockets. On the first request for each and every asset it is compiled and cached in whatever Rails is … Read more