I have used AWS Opsworks to create some servers. I have Sidekiq running as part of my Rails application. When I deploy Sidekiq restarts nicely. I am configuring Monit to watch the pid and start and stop Sidekiq if there are any issues. However when Monit trys to start Sidekiq I see that the wrong Ruby looks to be used. Oct 17 13:52:43 daitengu sidekiq: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bundler-1.3.4/lib/bundler/definition.rb:361:in `validate_ruby!': Your Ruby version is 1.8.7, but your Gemfile specified 1.9.3 (Bundler::RubyVersionMismatch) Oct 17 13:52:43 daitengu sidekiq: from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bundler-1.3.4/lib/bundler.rb:116:in `setup' Oct 17 13:52:43 daitengu sidekiq: from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bundler-1.3.4/lib/bundler/setup.rb:17 When I run the command from the cli Sidekiq launches correctly. $> cd /srv/www/myapp/current && RAILS_ENV=production nohup /usr/local/bin/bundle exec sidekiq -C config/sidekiq.yml >> /srv/www/myapp/shared/log/sidekiq.log 2>&1 & $> ps -aef |grep sidekiq root 1236 1235 8 20:54 pts/0 00:00:50 sidekiq 2.11.0 myapp [0 of 25 busy] My sidekiq.monitrc file check process unicorn with pidfile /srv/www/myapp/shared/pids/unicorn.pid start program = "/bin/bash -c 'cd /srv/www/myapp/current && /usr/local/bin/bundle exec unicorn_rails --env production --daemonize -c /srv/www/myapp/shared/config/unicorn.conf'" stop program = "/bin/bash -c 'kill -QUIT `cat /srv/www/myapp/shared/pids/unicorn.pid`'"