SysV init script for a passenger standalone Rails application

app

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: app
# Required-Start: $network $local_fs
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Rails application
# Description: Rails application
### END INIT INFO

NAME=app
USER=deployer

DEPLOY_DIR="/home/${USER}/${NAME}"
CMD="/home/${USER}/.rvm/wrappers/${NAME}/passenger"
TEMP_DIR="${DEPLOY_DIR}/tmp"
PORT=3000
PID_FILE="${TEMP_DIR}/pids/passenger.${PORT}.pid"
LOG_FILE="${DEPLOY_DIR}/log/passenger.${PORT}.log"

. /etc/${NAME}/env

start () {
  $CMD start $DEPLOY_DIR \
    --log-file $LOG_FILE \
    --temp-dir $TEMP_DIR \
    --pid-file $PID_FILE \
    -d -e production --user $USER
}

stop () {
  $CMD stop --pid-file $PID_FILE
}

status () {
  $CMD status --pid-file $PID_FILE
}

restart () {
  stop
  sleep 1
  start
}

case "$1" in
  start)
    start
    ;;
  stop)
    stop
    ;;
  status)
    status
    ;;
  restart)
    restart
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
    exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL

I had to use this when deploying on a Debian 7 VPS sitting behind haproxy.