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Tips for using unicorn with Sandbox installation tools

Since unicorn includes executables and is usually used to start a Ruby process, there are certain caveats to using it with tools that sandbox RubyGems installations such as Bundler or Isolate.

General deployment

If you're sandboxing your unicorn installation and using Capistrano (or similar), it's required that you sandbox your RubyGems in a per-application shared directory that can be used between different revisions.

unicorn will stash its original command-line at startup for the USR2 upgrades, and cleaning up old revisions will cause revision-specific installations of unicorn to go missing and upgrades to fail. If you find yourself in this situation and can't afford downtime, you can override the existing unicorn executable path in the config file like this:

Unicorn::HttpServer::START_CTX[0] = "/some/path/to/bin/unicorn"

Then use HUP to reload, and then continue with the USR2+QUIT upgrade sequence.

Environment variable pollution when exec-ing a new process (with USR2) is the primary issue with sandboxing tools such as Bundler and Isolate.

Bundler

Running

If you're bundling unicorn, use "bundle exec unicorn" (or "bundle exec unicorn_rails") to start unicorn with the correct environment variables

ref: yhbt.net/unicorn-public/9ECF07C4-5216-47BE-961D-AFC0F0C82060@internetfamo.us/

Otherwise (if you choose to not sandbox your unicorn installation), we expect the tips for Isolate (below) apply, too.

RUBYOPT pollution from SIGUSR2 upgrades

This is no longer be an issue as of bundler 0.9.17

ref: yhbt.net/unicorn-public/8FC34B23-5994-41CC-B5AF-7198EF06909E@tramchase.com/

BUNDLE_GEMFILE for Capistrano users

You may need to set or reset the BUNDLE_GEMFILE environment variable in the before_exec hook:

before_exec do |server|
  ENV["BUNDLE_GEMFILE"] = "/path/to/app/current/Gemfile"
end

Other ENV pollution issues

If you're using an older Bundler version (0.9.x), you may need to set or reset GEM_HOME, GEM_PATH and PATH environment variables in the before_exec hook as illustrated by gist.github.com/534668

Ruby 2.0.0 close-on-exec and SIGUSR2 incompatibility

Ruby 2.0.0 enforces FD_CLOEXEC on file descriptors by default. unicorn has been prepared for this behavior since unicorn 4.1.0, and bundler needs the "--keep-file-descriptors" option for "bundle exec": bundler.io/man/bundle-exec.1.html

Isolate

Running

Installing "unicorn" as a system-wide Rubygem and using the isolate gem may cause issues if you're using any of the bundled application-level libraries in unicorn/app/* (for compatibility with CGI-based applications, Rails <= 2.2.2, or ExecCgi). For now workarounds include doing one of the following:

  1. Isolating unicorn, setting GEM_HOME to your Isolate path, and running the isolated version of unicorn. You must set GEM_HOME before running your isolated unicorn install in this way.

  2. Installing the same version of unicorn as a system-wide Rubygem and isolating unicorn as well.

  3. Explicitly setting RUBYLIB or $LOAD_PATH to include any gem path where the unicorn gem is installed (e.g. /usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/unicorn-VERSION/lib)

RUBYOPT pollution from SIGUSR2 upgrades

If you are using Isolate, using Isolate 2.x is strongly recommended as environment modifications are idempotent.

If you are stuck with 1.x versions of Isolate, it is recommended that you disable it with the before_exec hook prevent the PATH and RUBYOPT environment variable modifications from propagating between upgrades in your Unicorn config file:

before_exec do |server|
  Isolate.disable
end

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