Question

In /etc/thin/ I’ve got several yml files. When I run service thin stop -C /etc/thin/app.yml thin stops all applications, instead of only the one I specified.

How do I get thin to stop/start only the specified application?

UPDATE: Hmm, in /etc/init.d/thin there’s this: $DAEMON restart --all $CONFIG_PATH. That explains a lot. Are there smarter init.d scripts? This is my script:

https://gist.github.com/1003131

See also:

Running Rails apps with thin as a service

Answer 1

you have to edit /etc/init.d/thin adding a new action or modifying the “restart” action.

as you can see, –all $CONFIG_PATH sends the command to all thin instances.

paste the init script somewhere, we can find a decent solution 😉

UPDATE:

try to add the following lines, below this:

restart)
  $DAEMON restart --all $CONFIG_PATH
  ;;
restart-single)
  $DAEMON restart -C $2
  ;;
stop-single)
  $DAEMON stop -C $2
  ;;

I didn’t tried it, but it should work well. this is a really simple solution (no error checking), we’ve added 2 new actions that must be called as:

service thin restart-single /etc/thin/your_app.yml
or
service thin stop-single /etc/thin/your_app.yml

let me know if it works 😉

cheers,
A.