Rails migrate cronjobs to whenever

Question

On server we have the following cronfile:

MAILTO=admin_email@project.com
* * * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /path/to/project/folder;RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake some_rake_task'
0 */2 * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /path/to/project/folder;RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake another_rake_task'
# and so on

I had no problems with moving it to whenever:

config/schedule.rb:

every '* * * * *' do
  rake 'some_rake_task', output: 'log/cron.log'
end
every '0 */2 * * *' do
  rake 'another_rake_task', output: 'log/cron.log'
end
# and so on

The question is how do I implement MAIL_TO option in whenever, so that when anything goes wrong admin is getting notified?

Thanks!

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 17 '15 at 09:43

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If I were you, I would set up error notifications with Airbrake or Rollbar which can both be configured to notify of errors within Rake tasks. That way you'll get notified automatically when something goes wrong in your CRON jobs.

answered Nov 17 '15 at 09:43

rlarcombe

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we have airbrake/errbit established. The issue with that is that too much people are getting notifications from errbit, and about rake task failures we need to notify only few devs. – Andrey Deineko Nov 17 '15 at 10:16
Ah, I see. Are you using Capistrano for deployment? – rlarcombe Nov 17 '15 at 10:32
yeap, we use Capistrano – Andrey Deineko Nov 17 '15 at 10:33
This discussion seems to be relevant to your situation: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/whenever-gem/Tu15VxJ6ctQ/JqFemcJYo-wJ Have you seen it? – rlarcombe Nov 17 '15 at 10:34
I have seen [this one](https://github.com/javan/whenever/issues/60) :) Do you think passing an array of emails would work? `env :MAILTO, [email1, email2]` ? – Andrey Deineko Nov 17 '15 at 10:39

Rails migrate cronjobs to whenever

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