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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Ruby on rails scheduled tasks
This is my first time scheduling a task and I am not sure of the best implementation (or the proper implementation).
My Goal:
I have a ruby on rails 4 app setup with twilio and deployed on Heroku. I want the app to automatically text all of my…
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Sidekiq processing with local redis but not with remote
I have a RoR app with background jobs using whenever and sidekiq gems.
In development environment when I launch sidekiq with local redis instance (on localhost) the job keeps getting executed without problems. But when I switch to a remote redis…
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Whenever - Cron not working? Permission denied
'I have set up a cron with wehenever, but its not working. I tried to run the command manually and i get the error /bin/bash: bin/rails: Permission denied.
Here what the command of the cron looks like:
/bin/bash -l -c 'cd /var/www/domain.net/main &&…
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how to force rake task to run under development environment using Whenever gem
I'm using Whenever gem to run a rake task.
When I run rake task it runs under development environment, but when it runs on a scheduled time it refers to a production environment.
How can I force to run a scheduled rake task under development…
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Undefined method with rails runner
I'm using the gem whenever and I can't get my runner instruction working.
I'm getting this error:
/Users/bl0b/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p125/gems/railties-3.2.11/lib/rails/commands/runner.rb:53:in `eval': undefined method `run' for…
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Can the whenever gem preserve existing lines in a crontab file?
I am using:
Ruby 1.9.2
whenever 0.7.2
capistrano 2.9.0
capistrano-ext 1.2.1
I am using whenever in conjunction with Capistrano on deploys to manage my crontab files.
I noticed that it completely rewrites my crontab files each time.
I'd like to be…
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Issue using whenever gem
I am trying to use whenever gem in my application but I am not able to run rake command in schedule.rb.
Error which is throwing up is
/bin/bash: rake: command not found
I am also using bundler so all my gems are freezed into the application.
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rails, whenever and docker - cron tasks doesn't run
My crontasks from schedule.rb doesn't work on docker container, but crontab -l result already contains this lines:
# Begin Whenever generated tasks for: /app/config/schedule.rb
45 19 * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'bundle exec rake stats:cleanup'
45 19 * *…
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Help with the "Whenever" gem in Ruby for cron tasks
I have not used cron before, so I can't be sure that I did this right. The tasks I want to be automated don't seem to be running. I did these steps in the terminal:
sudo gem install whenever
change to the application directory
wheneverize . (this…
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How to use whenever gem to run a task at 2 am AND 2 pm?
Currently I run this code:
every 1.day, at: '2am' do
rake 'data:load_direct_monitoring_statistics'
end if @environment == 'production'
every 1.day, at: '2pm' do
rake 'data:load_direct_monitoring_statistics'
end if @environment ==…
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How to check if whenever gem is working?
I've got the following configuration. I've installed whenever gem, created shedule.rb:
# Learn more: http://github.com/javan/whenever
every 6.hours do
runner "Part.check_status_update"
end
In part.rb model I have corresponding method.
A. How…
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In Whenever gem, if we use every :month, does it mean the end of month or beginning?
When using the whenever gem we can set a monthly job like this :
every :month do
...
end
Will this run the job at the end of the month or at the start of the month? I want to run it at the end.
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Crontab not working from whenever gem
My linux server is running a Rails 4 app with Nginx/unicorn.
I am using the Whenever gem to schedule tasks. Everything was working normally until a couple of days ago when the cron jobs appear to have simply stopped running.
This is in my…
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rails whenver gem , running a command only if certain condition passes.
We are using whenever gem with rails on our project. I understand that we can schedule a command using whenever gem like this.
every 1.day, :at => '6:00 am' do
command "echo 'hello'"
end
but my problem is that i want to execute this command only…
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sidekiq+whenever+unicorn uninitialized constant ClassWorker production env
I use Rails 4, sidekiq 2.13.1, whenever, cron script run every 2 minutes. No errors during the first execute but all next get errors. I got this error only in production env. My worker locate in app/workers. I've included it by following string in…
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