members.hackadl.org - updating the app killed the server

[sighmon]

What I did:

• Updated the bundle on my dev machine: $ bundle update
• Tested things locally and pushed: $ git push
• Pulled on the server $ git pull
• Updated .ruby-version to ruby-2.2.2
• Updated the bundle: $ bundle update
• Restarted the server $ touch tmp/restart.txt

What I expected:

• The server to restart gracefully.

What happened:

• The server gave a 500 error relating to Passenger.

What @thatpixguy and I did to get it running again:

• I think the ruby version was hard coded into the Apache config.
• Restart Apache.
• Restart Passenger.
• Cross fingers.

[thatpixguy]

wrong path to rvm-ruby in ~/public_html/.htaccess:
PassengerRuby /home/ha-members/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.2.0@hackadl-member-website/ruby

so updated to 2.2.2

but, psyche! it turns out this isn't used, it actually uses the same config line from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ha-members.conf

updated it there

restarted apache

nope

restarted passenger (passenger-config restart-app)

nope

restarted apache again just to be sure

bingo.

so maybe needed to restart passenger first.