Running a command before the Rails server starts under Apache

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I'm currently running Apache with Passenger and a Rails 3.1 application. In my environment setup, I need to start sunspot - rake sunspot:solr:start RAILS_ENV=production - before I run the server. Since the server starts auto-magically when Apache starts, I'm not entirely sure how to do this.

How can I run a list of commands before the Rails server starts?

Which distro are you running? – quanta Sep 05 '11 at 17:09 — quanta, Sep 05 '11 at 17:09

quanta · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-07T07:37:33.030

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You can write a Upstart config (or install Solr with Tomcat) to start Solr use a stanza like below:

start on starting apache2

This makes Solr will be started before Apache.

edited Sep 07 '11 at 07:37

answered Sep 06 '11 at 09:32

quanta

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What do you mean? – quanta Sep 07 '11 at 07:32

Running a command before the Rails server starts under Apache

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