a Ruby gem that makes it possible to define cron tasks in Ruby
whenever is a Ruby gem that makes it possible to write and maintain cron tasks in Ruby, using a simplified and expressive syntax.
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Cron + whenever not working with RVM
I am using RVM environment. RUby version : 2.1.2 rails : 4.1.1
schedule.rb :
every 1.minute do
runner "note.send_mail"
end
I used whenever --update-crontab to update the cron tab.
when I check the jobs using crontab -l it shows up…
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Whenever crontab -- undefined method
I'm using whenever to set up a mailer but I'm getting the following error in my cron log:
/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/railties-4.0.0/lib/rails/commands/runner.rb:53:in `eval': undefined method `unreadmailer' for #…
Madeline
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Whenever Plugin Help
I am trying to use the Whenever plugin for rails to perform a model process at certain times. My schedule.rb is as follows:
every 1.day, :at => '5:30 am' do
runner "User.mail_out"
end
My model is as follows:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
…
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Capistrano: Run whenever tasks after migration
I am using whenever/capistrano in my deploy.rb to update crontab on deploy
All I needed to do in my deploy script was to add these lines
set :whenever_command, "bundle exec whenever"
set :whenever_environment, defer {rails_env}
require…
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Whenever cron doesn't trigger backup
I'm trying to integrate automatic backup mechanism to Rails app and decided to use backup gem. Backup file is valid and runs successfully manually, but when i deployed it on VPS it didn't run by cron at all. Even log files were empty.…
Anton Jyha
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Amazon EC2 Cron job stops after some hours
I am using whenever gem to schedule cron job every 15 minutes in my rails 3.2 application and capistrano gem to deploy it on amazon EC2 instance.
The issue is:
Whenever I deploy with cap deploy, the cron job works fine(every 15minutes).
But it stops…
shweta
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Ruby on Rails 4 Whenever cron job not working
I would like to use Whenever gem to run scheduled jobs in my RoR application. I run the bundle install and this is my schedule.rb:
every 1.minute do
runner "Event.executeEvents"
end
My Event.executeEvents method is a simple log entry:
class…
Rober
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using whenever gem for scheduling a job every hour on Sunday
We are using whenever gem on our rails project and there is one task that need to be run every hour but only on the day of the sunday.
I understand that i can schedule tasks on hourly basis , by something like this:
every 1.hour do
# do…
Sahil Dhankhar
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Scheduling rake tasks with Sinatra
I'm trying to use either whenever/rufus-scheduler gems to schedule rake tasks to run in Sinatra. I can't seem it get the tasks to run.
Here is what I've been trying:
class App < Sinatra::Base
...
configure :development do
every 1.minute…
christo16
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Dropbox with whenever gem
I'm trying to use whenever with dropbox. I created Core Api App on Dropbox site. After running whenever I got this error:
Couldn't get access token. Server returned 401: Unauthorized. Visit
the following URL to authorize your Dropbox App with…
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Multiple schedule.rb files with whenever gem
Is it possible to have multiple schedule.rb files when using the whenever gem in rails to setup cron jobs? I am looking to have a regular schedule.rb file and also a reports_schedule.rb file that is going to be deployed to a different server and it…
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Ruby/Rails - Whenever task causes error
I'm very new to Ruby on Rails and build a small DemoApp with it. This App collects some network data and stores it in a database. This task is done by whenever every minute.
I developed and tested this on Ubuntu and it worked perfectly fine.
Now, i…
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when using rufus, Resque or whenever scheduler and what are the weaknesses and strengths of them?
I'm a new member of ruby on rails, and i'm researching for job schedulers in rails, but i am quite confused because having many schedulers such as rufus, whenever, resque.... Could you show me some information, documents or advice ? thank you so…
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whenever/capistrano `method_missing_with_variables': undefined method `role_names_for_host'
I'm using whenever/capistrano to update my cron_tab when deploying with capistrano, it was working great until recently my deploys started to fail when updating the…
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rake task scheduling with whenever
Hello I was trying to run a rake task every 5 minutes with this schedule code using the whenever gem
set :output, "#{path}/log/cron.log"
every 10.minutes do
rake "delete:old_offers"
end
But the code never execute. If I try to run my task…
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