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 generated by Whenever doesn't work
It seems that my cron task doesn't work.
Here is the result of "contrab -l"
# Begin Whenever generated tasks for: /home/mtaville/mtaville_staging/releases/20140827132856/config/schedule.rb
* * * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd…
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Cannot get whenever to run my rake task
I am trying to get whenever to run my rake task but it doesn't work.
#Command Line
$ whenever -w
[write] crontab file written
#schedule.rb
every :year, :at => "2014-07-25 17:39:48 -0700" do
rake 'timeperiod:create_timeperiod'
end
The rake…
Eric Baldwin
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Rails run object method on itself periodically
I need to run a method once daily in a Rails application.
I'm thinking about using the whenever gem, but I realize I have a bit of a problem.
I need to run the method on an instance of an object. So I can't just have something like:
every 1.day do
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Hugo
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Cron Job not working using whenever gem
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…
Nidhin S G
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Not able to test cron job using whenever gem in rails 3
I did the following to implement cron jobs in rails 3 using a "runner" instead of a rake task.
Step 1:
I have whenever gem installed and scheduler.rb has following:
set :environment, 'development'
set :output, {
:error => "/log/error.log",
…
Ankur Kumar
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Schedule tasks to remove table entries
Can someone assist me setting up a cron job using the whenever gem? I want to clear the Notifications, Conversations, and Receipts tables every 90 days from the created_at dates.
I'm not sure how to fill it in.
every 90.day, :at => '4:30 am' do
end
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Rails repopulate view after destroy. Whenever
I've setup a "Whenever" task that truncates a "news" table, refreshes my sitemap, then repopulates the news table. All at 5am everyday. (This gets rid of old news items and fetches new ones using nokogiri.)
The problem is, every morning, i wake up…
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Best way to manage gem whenever for sending emails
In my application there are posts which are going to expire in certain time of a day.
After the expiration the customer needs to notify through emails.
I have used Rails cron whenever for in each 1 minute and it makes expire the post at the…
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Using Whenever with Rails 4 - Modify attributes from a model
I got a problem. I use whenever to run daily a method in a model class (of course). This method iterates over a collection of "holidays" instances and then notifies the existence of this holiday to a client (another model).
Here comes the problem;…
Mario Viapiano
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Whenever + Mailer not are working together
I need to send some emails weekly.
I installed the mailer and did several tests. Is working properly.
But I can not use Whenever to automatically send emails.
Have searched in various forums and still can not fix.
Model/HrCurriculumIntern
def…
Lorena Bento
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Using whenever gem with sinatra
#config/scheduler.rb
set :output, 'log/cron.log'
every 1.minutes do
rake 'reports:generate'
end
When I run crontab -l I get the following output:
* * * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd bundle exec rake reports:generate --silent >>…
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Getting error while running rake task in production
When I run
$bundle env
got the result as:
Bundler 1.5.2
Ruby 2.1.0 (2013-12-25 patchlevel 0) [x86_64-linux]
Rubygems 2.2.1
rvm 1.25.15 (stable)
GEM_HOME /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0
GEM_PATH…
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Using Whenever with RedMine
I am trying to set up a cron task for a model in a redmine plugin. The Whenever gem looked like the best option. Alas, it does not seem to do anything.
I have set up the gem, both in the config folder of the plugin and the primary one. I added it…
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Execute Rake task every fourth sunday using whenever gem
I have the following task defined in my schedule.rb that should be run every 1st of the month a 2am.
every "0 2 1 * *" do
rake ":task_1"
end
What I really want to do though is run that task every fourth sunday instead. All I found in the whenever…
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Could not find table 'objects' (ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid)?
I encountered a problem when executing the scheduled job by whenever.
In my config/schedule.rb:
every 1.minutes do
runner "Ubike.update"
end
The function works without errors in the console, but I got this error message in the…
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