gistfile1.sh

#!/bin/bash
 #
 # God
 #
 # chkconfig: 2345 85 15
 # description: start, stop, restart God
 #
 # Also consider adding this line (kills god weekly) to your crontab (sudo crontab -e):
 #
 #    # deicide is painless
 #    0 1 * * 0 god quit; sleep 1; killall god; sleep 1; killall -9 god; sleep 1; /etc/init.d/god start
 #

 . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

 RETVAL=0
 prog="god"

 CONF="/your/app/location/config.god"
 PID_FILE="/var/run/god/god.pid" ; mkdir -p `dirname $PID_FILE`
 LOG_FILE="/var/log/god/god.log" ; mkdir -p `dirname $LOG_FILE`
 GOD="/usr/local/rvm/bin/bootup_god" # This may need to be created with `rvm wrapper` command

 start()
 {
   echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
   $GOD -c "$CONF" -P "$PID_FILE" -l "$LOG_FILE" && success || failure
   RETVAL=$?
   echo
 }

 stop()
 {
   echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
   kill `cat $PID_FILE` && success || failure
   RETVAL=$?
   echo
 }

 case "$1" in
     start)
       start
   ;;
     stop)
       stop
   ;;
     restart)
       stop
       start
   ;;
     status)
       status -p $PID_FILE $prog
       RETVAL=$?
   ;;
     *)
       echo "Usage: $prog {start|stop|restart|status}"
       exit 1
   ;;
 esac

 exit $RETVAL