How do I get unicorn to work with my contact form?

I am using the Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu (nginx and unicorn) application image for my server. I configured unicorn and nginx to load my app and everything seemed to be working. Then I tried to use the contact form on my site and it appeared to work but nothing went through (it also completed too fast).

My first question is where can I find webrick like logs for my unicorn server? I looked at /home/unicorn/log/unicorn.log but that doesn’t have the information I need.

On reboot this is what the unicorn process looks like:

rails@edawebdesign:~$ ps -e f | grep unicorn 1179 pts/1 S+ 0:00 _ grep unicorn 779 ? Sl 0:00 unicorn master -D -c /home/unicorn/unicorn.conf -E production 782 ? Sl 0:02 _ unicorn worker[0] -D -c /home/unicorn/unicorn.conf -E production 784 ? Sl 0:02 _ unicorn worker[1] -D -c /home/unicorn/unicorn.conf -E production

This is the only way I can get my contact form to work:

1. sudo kill the master and worker processes
2. go to the root of my app and run unicorn_rails &: rails@edawebdesign:~/apps/edawebdesign/current$ unicorn_rails & [1] 1243 rails@edawebdesign:~/apps/edawebdesign/current$ I, [2014-02-22T19:59:19.695911 #1243] INFO – : listening on addr=0.0.0.0:8080 fd=9 I, [2014-02-22T19:59:19.696312 #1243] INFO – : worker=0 spawning… I, [2014-02-22T19:59:19.697360 #1243] INFO – : master process ready I, [2014-02-22T19:59:19.698812 #1245] INFO – : worker=0 spawned pid=1245 I, [2014-02-22T19:59:19.699163 #1245] INFO – : Refreshing Gem list I, [2014-02-22T19:59:21.426114 #1245] INFO – : worker=0 ready

Then I get a slightly different looking unicorn process list:

rails@edawebdesign:~/apps/edawebdesign/current$ ps -e f | grep unicorn 1243 pts/1 Sl 0:00 _ unicorn_rails master -l0.0.0.0:8080 1245 pts/1 Sl 0:01 | _ unicorn_rails worker[0] -l0.0.0.0:8080 1266 pts/1 S+ 0:00 _ grep unicorn

This results in my app working as expected. Anyone have an idea of what is going on here?