Restarting a Rails Server

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What exactly does this command do, in regards to running a Rails server?

~$ sudo touch restart.txt

I thought it restarts the Rails server, but it happens so fast when I run it, that I can hardly believe it's really rebooting the Rails server. It's fixed my problem a bunch of times, but I would like to know why it works, and what it's doing.

Thanks!

Goldentoa11

Posted 2012-05-10T17:01:58.937

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If you are using Passenger, then it's monitoring the timestamp of the tmp/restart.txt file to trigger restarts.

kweerious

Posted 2012-05-10T17:01:58.937

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1ahh, so passenger is looking at it and when it sees a newer timestamp, it knows to restart itself? – Goldentoa11 – 2012-05-11T18:58:49.257

1@Goldentoa11 yes. – whitequark – 2012-05-11T19:04:44.847

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