After my application sits idle overnight, when I try to access it in the morning I get a 500 Internal server error and the logs indicate "PGError: no connection to the server". After this first request if I refresh the page again everything is fine. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with apache 2, Passenger 3.0.2, Rails 2.3.8, and Postgres 8.4 on a remote server. Any ideas how to fix this? Here is the log: Processing ApplicationController#index (for 192.168.1.33 at 2011-01-06 17:28:14) [GET] Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"da"} ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid (PGError: no connection to the server : SELECT * FROM "users" WHERE ("users"."id" = 1) LIMIT 1): app/controllers/application_controller.rb:47:in `current_user' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:51:in `set_current_user' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:123:in `render_optional_error_file' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/rack/request_handler.rb:96:in `process_request' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_request_handler.rb:513:in `accept_and_process_next_request' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_request_handler.rb:274:in `main_loop' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb:321:in `start_request_handler' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb:275:in `send' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb:275:in `handle_spawn_application' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:479:in `safe_fork' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb:270:in `handle_spawn_application' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:357:in `__send__' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:357:in `server_main_loop' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:206:in `start_synchronously' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:180:in `start' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb:149:in `start' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:219:in `spawn_rails_application' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb:132:in `lookup_or_add' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:214:in `spawn_rails_application' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb:82:in `synchronize' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb:79:in `synchronize' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:213:in `spawn_rails_application' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:132:in `spawn_application' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:275:in `handle_spawn_application' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:357:in `__send__' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:357:in `server_main_loop' passenger (3.0.2) lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:206:in `start_synchronously' passenger (3.0.2) helper-scripts/passenger-spawn-server:99 /!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Thu Jan 06 17:28:14 -0700 2011 Status: 500 Internal Server Error PGError: no connection to the server : SELECT * FROM "users" WHERE ("users"."id" = 1) LIMIT 1 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