when you are using Phusion Passenger plugin & make change or add file, etc to live site by SVN or directly on server , you need to follow below steps after "up SVN" or changes on server to get changes on live site..
step-1 Go to you to web site's root directory.
i.e. root@u15369819:/home/yoursite_name.com#
step-2 type command, ps.
i.e. root@u15369819:/home/yoursite_name.com#ps
step-3 type command like, touch tmp/restart.txt.
i.e. root@u15369819:/home/yoursite_name.com# touch tmp/restart.txt
step-4 type command again, ps.
i.e. root@u15369819:/home/public_html/yoursite_name.com#ps
step-1 Go to you to web site's root directory.
i.e. root@u15369819:/home/yoursite_name.com#
step-2 type command, ps.
i.e. root@u15369819:/home/yoursite_name.com#ps
step-3 type command like, touch tmp/restart.txt.
i.e. root@u15369819:/home/yoursite_name.com# touch tmp/restart.txt
step-4 type command again, ps.
i.e. root@u15369819:/home/public_html/yoursite_name.com#ps