[Ruby] deploy with no down time?

[Eric Hodel]

On Jan 15, 2007, at 04:57, ben wiseley wrote:

> We're using cap for deploys (to a pound/apache/mongrel based rails  
> env),
> which is great, but it results in downtime and our site, pretty  
> much anytime
> of the day, has users online.  I've been doing the daily deploys at  
> 3am -
> but even then I'm kicking 30-50 users off line.

You have multiple processes right?

Can you get cap to do rolling restarts?  HUP one process, wait 10ish  
seconds, HUP another process, ...?

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