How to get systemd to restart Rails App with Puma

Question

I\'ve been struggling with this a week now and really can\'t seem to find an answer. I\'ve deployed my Rails App with Capistrano. I use Puma as a server.

When I deploy,

Answer 1

At the end the problem was twofold: 1) rvm wasn't installed properly for all users, which meant the deployer user didn't have ruby/bundle/etc available and secondarily the script was also wrong. For reference below is the revised script that worked for me:

[Unit]
Description=Puma HTTP Server
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple

User=deployer

WorkingDirectory=/var/www/apps/MRCbe/current

ExecStart=/bin/bash -lc 'bundle exec puma -C /var/www/apps/MRCbe/shared/puma.rb'

Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target