Sidekiq installation on digital ocean droplet

sidekiq-installation-on-digital-ocean.rb

# Log in to the droplet
ssh deploy@ip_address

# install redis server
sudo apt-get install redis-server

# create sidekiq pid file
sudo nano project/shared/tmp/pids/sidekiq.pid

# give permission to the pid file
sudo chmod 777 project/shared/tmp/pids/sidekiq.pid

# copy the content of systemd file at sudo vi /lib/systemd/system/sidekiq.service from
# https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/blob/master/examples/systemd/sidekiq.service

# enable sidekiq service
sudo systemctl enable sidekiq.service

# start sidekiq server
sudo service sidekiq start

# check sidekiq logs for error
sudo cat /var/log/syslog 
# Dec 31 06:27:17 ubuntu-14-04-mus systemd[1]: Started Session 89413 of user deploy.
# Dec 31 06:29:38 ubuntu-14-04-mus systemd[1]: Reloading.
# Dec 31 06:29:38 ubuntu-14-04-mus systemd[1]: Started ACPI event daemon.
# Dec 31 06:29:46 ubuntu-14-04-mus systemd[1]: Started sidekiq.

# check sidekiq process running or not
sudo ps aux | grep sidekiq 
# deploy   10624 39.3 13.3 458104 135620 ?       Ssl  06:29   0:05 sidekiq 5.2.7 sales_with_tables [0 of 10 busy]
# deploy   10675  0.0  0.1  12916  1020 pts/0    S+   06:29   0:00 grep --color=auto sidekiq