Unicorn restart issue with capistrano

Question

We\'re deploying with cap and using a script that send USR2 to the unicorn process to reload and it usually works but every once in a while it will fail. When that happens looki

Answer 1

You should set the BUNDLE_GEMFILE environment variable before you start the server, point it at current/Gemfile.

Answer 2

In your unicorn.rb add the before_exec block

current_path = "/var/www/html/my project/current"

before_exec do |server|
  ENV['BUNDLE_GEMFILE'] = "#{current_path}/Gemfile"
end

Read more about it here http://blog.willj.net/2011/08/02/fixing-the-gemfile-not-found-bundlergemfilenotfound-error/