Cron Job not working using whenever gem

Question

I am trying to learn Cron Job and whenever gem. In my app i have created a rake task.

require 'rubygems'

namespace :cron_job do
  desc "To Check Users Inactivity"
  task user_inactivity: :environment do
    p "Inactive Users..."
  end
end

and in schedule.rb i have wrote like this

every 1.minute do
  rake "cron_job:user_inactivity", environment: "development"
end

and in my terminal i wrote two commands

 whenever --update-crontab

and then

sudo /etc/init.d/cron restart

but nothing is happening after 1 minute. I checked my console for p messages and nothing happens. Do i miss something?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '14 at 06:43

5

The output won't show in your console.

You have to set the output log path by:

set :output, "/path/to/my/cron_log.log"

Then check the log.

answered Jun 13 '14 at 06:43

xdazz

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@NidhinSG Where you want. And the code should put in `schedule.rb`, read the comments of that file. – xdazz Jun 13 '14 at 06:52
should i give the Project path or complete path for log file – Nidhin S G Jun 13 '14 at 06:59
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@NidhinSG If you want to put in the log directory in the Project, just use `set :output, 'log/cron_log.log'` – xdazz Jun 13 '14 at 07:01

Cron Job not working using whenever gem

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