Deploying Sidekiq to Ubuntu 16.04

bundle exec sidekiq to run it as a daemon we use the -d option

bundle exec sidekiq -d

To kill a sidekiq daemon, you need to do  the PID of the sidekiq process. When a sidekiq process starts it enters its pid to file which can be found at

/path/to/rails/app/tmp/pid/sidekiq.pid

So the command to stop it would be

pkill -F /path/to/rails/app/tmp/pid/sidekiq.pid

But making it a daemon is not a good idea, as there is no code from sidekiq to restart the process when it fails or exits on its own. So in ubuntu, which is our favorite OS for the production server, we make sidekiq a systemd process. Before we make it into a service and if you are using rvm you need to create a wrapper for systemd so that ruby with all the gems are available for it.

rvm wrapper 2.3.1 systemd bundle

Once that is done you need to create a sidekiq.service file under your ‘/etc/systemd/system/‘. You can find the configuration file with default settings here.   So that was a bit  from me on Sidekiq.Hope it helps you some way in further understanding sidekiq.]]>