How to make Nginx be aware of Rails code changes

Question

If I serve my application using 'Rails s' whenever the code of the application changes the served app changes too. Now I am using Nginx and passenger, how do I replicate this behaviour, at least on the development environment?

Answer 1

You actually want to reload Passenger, not nginx. Create a tmp/restart.txt file under your Rails app root directory. To reload, touch tmp/restart.txt. Passenger will notice the file change and reload.