<p>Natham writes about this tip I found today. This one helps to speed up the deployment with Passenger a little bit. In your Capistrano, Vlad, etc, you probably have a step that runs:</p> <pre><code> touch tmp/restart.txt </code></pre> <p>This is needed, so Passenger (mod_rails) is able to know when it should restart itself. Now, think about this:</p> <b>Commit "tmp/restart.txt" to your Git repository.</b> <p>This way you'll never have to touch tmp/restart.txt again. This will be deleted when Passenger notices it. And on the next deployment, it'll be rewritten again, with your deploy script (Capistrano/etc), that probably runs something like "git reset; git pull", and Passenger will notices again, restart. And so forth.</p> <p>Clever, isn't? :)</p> <p>Source: <a href="http://codedlite.com/blog/?p=57">A tip for Passenger(mod_rails) users</a> by Nathan.</p> 15 2009-02-02T10:32:49Z 17 2009-02-02T10:33:13Z