Rails/Nginx/Capistrano/Puma: (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream
So the solution was to restart puma.
cap production deploy:restart
Every time I reboot the server, I need to restart puma as well.
My recommendation is to check
~/apps/appname/shared/log/puma.stderr.log
log file. You may find there the answer
looking at log/puma_error.log
i saw the error (LoadError while trying to load bundler), doing gem update --system
fixed it.