Sidekiq server not loading configuration file

Question

I'm trying to setup sidekiq with my sinatra application, and I'm having trouble starting up the sidekiq workers to run in the daemon mode, with a configuration file.

My project has the following structure:

project
- config
-- sidekiq.yml #Sidekiq Config File
- app
-- app.rb #Sinatra Application File
- Rakefile
- Gemfile
- etc.

The ultimate goal is to create some rake tasks to handle all sidekiq tasks.

For now, I'm just trying to the get things to work correctly via the command line, and then I'll get it working via rake.

sidekiq.yml

# Sidekiq Configuration
---
development:
  logile: ./log/sidekiq_development.log
  verbose: true
  pidfile: ./tmp/pids/sidekiq.pid
  concurrency: 1
  queues:
    - [household_import, 7]

When I run this command in the project directory:

bundle exec sidekiq -C './config/sidekiq.yml' -e 'development' -d

I get the following:

You really should set a logfile if you're going to daemonize
/Users/gutter007/git/webapps/project/vendor/bundle/gems/sidekiq-2.16.1/lib/sidekiq/cli.rb:141:in
 `daemonize'
 /Users/gutter007/git/webapps/project/vendor/bundle/gems/sidekiq-2.16.1/lib/sidekiq/cli.rb:39:in
 `parse'
 /Users/gutter007/git/webapps/project/vendor/bundle/gems/sidekiq-2.16.1/bin/sidekiq:7:in
 `<top (required)>'
 /Users/gutter007/git/webapps/project/vendor/bundle/bin/sidekiq:23:in
 `load'
 /Users/gutter007/git/webapps/project/vendor/bundle/bin/sidekiq:23:in
 `<main>'

My confusion is that I have the logfile set in the config file. My assumption is that it's not picking up or reading the cofig file correctly.

I tried tweaking the paths, and using full paths with the config file, but it did not seem to change anything the error message. I've also tweaked the config file itself, assuming the format might be off, but no dice.

Does anyone see what I'm doing wrong here?

Please let me know if you need any more information.

thanks.

Answer 1

I dug into the sidekiq code, and debugged my config file issues.

There were two issues:

1. I spelled logfile incorrectly ... doh!
2. You need to setup each row with a colon(:) to symbolize the value. It pulls the yaml file into a hash, and without the symbol it won't recognize the key

So

development:
  logfile: ./log/sidekiq_development.log

won't work, but

development:
  :logfile: ./log/sidekiq_development.log
#notice the ':' infront of the logfile

does!

Here is my updated working logfile.

# Sidekiq Configuration
---
development:
  :logfile: ./log/sidekiq_development.log
  :verbose: true
  :pidfile: ./log/tmp/pids/sidekiq.pid
  :concurrency: 1
  :queues:
    - [household_import, 7]