# How do I reset rails in production mode on DreamHost? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 5, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-i-reset-rails-in-production-mode-on-dreamhost/97213 "2006-07-05T17:44:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ssk)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-i-reset-rails-in-production-mode-on-dreamhost/97213/1 "2006-07-05T17:44:06Z")
Hello! I am testing rails on DreamHost. I believe it’s running on apache. In development mode, it ran very slowly. So I changed it into production mode and switched to fcgi. It’s very fast now. But the problem is that if I add actions to a controller, it’s not applied. I know that in production mode, I need to restart web server. But I don’t control the web server. How can I reset rails? Thanks in advance. Sam ---
**Author:** ![ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ssk)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-i-reset-rails-in-production-mode-on-dreamhost/97213/2 "2006-07-05T18:02:39Z")
In your shell for Dreamhost, issue this command killall -USR2 dispatch.fcgi That usually works for me. If it doesn’t, you’ll need to find all your dispatchers ps -ef | grep dispatch.fcgi and kill each one by process id kill -9 (process id) ---
**Author:** ![ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ssk)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-i-reset-rails-in-production-mode-on-dreamhost/97213/3 "2006-07-05T18:59:41Z")
Brian H. wrote: > In your shell for Dreamhost, issue this command > > killall -USR2 dispatch.fcgi > > That usually works for me. If it doesn’t, you’ll need to find all your > dispatchers > > ps -ef | grep dispatch.fcgi > > and kill each one by process id > > kill -9 (process id) Thanks, Brian. The second method works. I’m not sure about the first one yet. Sam ---
**Author:** ![ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ssk)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-i-reset-rails-in-production-mode-on-dreamhost/97213/4 "2006-07-05T22:55:32Z")
Sam K. wrote: > Brian H. wrote: > > > In your shell for Dreamhost, issue this command > > > > kill -9 (process id) > > Thanks, Brian. > The second method works. > I’m not sure about the first one yet. > > Sam You might want to get a copy of my fcgi\_watch script: [http://www.alevans.com/dl/fcgi\_watch-0.3.1.tgz](http://www.alevans.com/dl/fcgi_watch-0.3.1.tgz) I wrote it specifically to handle some issues with FCGI processes on Dreamhost. It will come in especially handy when you deploy your second Rails app:-) –Al Evans ---
**Author:** ![ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ssk)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-i-reset-rails-in-production-mode-on-dreamhost/97213/5 "2006-07-06T01:27:23Z")
Al Evans wrote: > You might want to get a copy of my fcgi\_watch script: > > [http://www.alevans.com/dl/fcgi\_watch-0.3.1.tgz](http://www.alevans.com/dl/fcgi_watch-0.3.1.tgz) > > I wrote it specifically to handle some issues with FCGI processes on > Dreamhost. It will come in especially handy when you deploy your second > Rails app:-) > > –Al Evans Oh, thank you very much. I’ll definately check it out. Thanks again. Sam ---
**Author:** ![ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ssk)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 5:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-i-reset-rails-in-production-mode-on-dreamhost/97213/6 "2006-07-06T05:43:56Z")
Al: Love that script but I always forget where it is 🙂 Thanks!