Rails, using whenever gem in development

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user1377556 picture user1377556 · Jul 17, 2012 · Viewed 20.9k times · Source

Sorry quick question here from a relative Rails newbie. I'm trying to use the Whenever gem to schedule a number of rake tasks. I can't for the life of me get it to actually begin running the cron jobs on my development machine.

Judging from other stackoverflow threads, it appears I should add this:

set :environment, "development"

to my schedule.rb file. But then what?

And then how do I stop the cron jobs once they've started?

Using Rails 3.2.3 in OSX

UPDATE: the answer is to run $ whenever -w which writes the cron job to a crontab file. The system then immediately starts running that crontab file automatically.

Unfortunately, my logfile for whenever contains the following: "rake aborted! Don't know how to build task <task name>"

I'm thinking this might be due to the known crontab/rvm issue, but any suggestions are welcome.

Answer

Ashwin Yaprala picture Ashwin Yaprala · Feb 26, 2013

Clear existing cron jobs.

crontab -r

Update cronjob with the environment.

whenever --update-crontab --set environment='development'

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