This tiny gem adds support for another server, god, to manage restarts for your application. Features:

• it runs separate god instances for every application (choose your app names wisely)
• it loads all configuration files from config/*.god
• it starts or restarts monitoring process on every deployment
• ideal for local rvm configurations, where every user uses their own ruby instances

in config/deploy.rb:

deploy.server = :godlike
deploy.god_group = 'groupname'

where 'groupname' is what you have set in all of your *.god files:

God.watch do |w|
  ...
  w.group = 'groupname'
  ...
end

Specify the group name every time you call god, like this:

$ god -p <groupname> [commands and parameters]

Suggested .rvmrc settings:

~/.rvmrc:

unalias god 2>/dev/null

<application dir>/.rvmrc:

alias god='god -p <groupname>'

Copyright © 2010 Balazs Nagy, released under the MIT license