use thin and rack for deployment. it plays nicer with monit

config.ru

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+require 'rubygems'
+require 'sinatra'
+
+Sinatra::Application.default_options.merge!(
+  :run => false,
+  :env => :production
+)
+
+require 'binaryattraction_facebooker'
+run Sinatra.application
+

config.yml

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+---
+    environment: production
+    chdir: /webapp/binaryattraction
+    address: 127.0.0.1
+    user: webapp
+    group: webapp
+    port: 12501
+    pid: /webapp/binaryattraction/log/sinatra.pid
+    rackup: /webapp/binaryattraction/config.ru
+    log: /webapp/binaryattraction/sinatra.log
+    max_conns: 1024
+    timeout: 30
+    max_persistent_conns: 512
+    daemonize: true

facebook_daemon

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-#!/usr/bin/env ruby
-
-require 'rubygems'
-require 'daemons'
-
-opts = {
-  :app_name => 'binaryattraction_facebooker',
-  :dir_mode => :script,
-  :dir => '/log',
-  :backtrace => true,
-  :multiple => true,
-  :log_output => true
-}
-
-Daemons.run(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/binaryattraction_facebooker.rb', opts)