Running resque as a different user

[wvengen]

I'm deploying with one user, but would like to run resque as the user the app runs with. It'd be great of capistrano-resque would allow to specify a user to run as. This could be either by setting the ssh user option, or using sudo with a specific user.

A simple solution would be to give the option of prepending the command - a capistrano-resque user could add a sudo :as => there.

Would this be a useful feature?

[dmarkow]

While it may be useful, this could be messy to implement; for example, many people may use the rbenv or rvm capistrano plugins as well as rails/bundler plugins. Capistrano logs in and can execute commands such as bundle exec ... but how would this work with something like su -u otheruser bundle exec if that other user account doesn't have rbenv or bundler installed, etc.

I'm closing this for now as I won't be able to get this personally implemented anytime soon, but if you want to take a stab at it and submit a pull request we can get it added.

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On a somewhat related note (which I plan on adding to the README): This gem isn't the best approach to managing workers on a production system. What happens if the system reboots or the workers die unexpectedly? Using a system-level process manager (upstart, init.d, etc.) will handle this kind of stuff without having to manually deploy/start resque via capistrano. If you need to restart workers during a deploy, you can just add a super-simple task like sudo service resque restart. And if you need to set a custom user, this can be done in the init/upstart script.

[wvengen]

Thanks for your response, I guess you're right that there is no standard way in which this will just work.

The addition to the README would be useful in my view.