rufus cron job not working in Apache/Passenger

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I have a Rails app running on Apache/Passenger. It has a rufus-scheduler cron job that runs in the background and sends out notifications via email.

When I am running the app in development on the WEBrick server, the emails are sent like they are supposed to be sent.

When I start up the app in production on Apache/Passenger, the emails don't get sent. In the production logs it doesn't show any logs for rufus-scheduler.

I'm stuck in this problem. Your help will be appreciated, thank you in advance.

related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18108719/debugging-rufus-scheduler — jmettraux, Feb 18 '14 at 23:20

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 19 '14 at 00:31

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The easiest solution is to set PassengerSpawnMethod to direct. The Phusion Passenger documentation explains why this solves it: http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html#spawning_methods_explained In particular, take a look at section "15.4. Smart spawning gotcha #2: the need to revive threads".

answered Feb 19 '14 at 00:31

Hongli

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Thanks Hongli for your valuable answer,but i have solved my issue by using cronic gem. url:- https://github.com/mojombo/chronic – Dnyanarth lonkar Feb 19 '14 at 07:57
Hi, where I have to set PassengerSpawnMethod property, I am using standalone installation of Passenger 5 in Ubuntu environment. – tech spartans Jun 19 '15 at 19:22
"passenger start --spawn-method direct" can you help solve this issue – tech spartans Jun 19 '15 at 19:54
This link helped me a lot to understand the spwaning methods: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/indepth/ruby/spawn_methods/ – Robin Sep 09 '17 at 05:54

rufus cron job not working in Apache/Passenger

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