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 tabs cannot find proper Ruby version via Whenever gem
I wanted to set a cron tab which would execute a task located in my Rails app. In my config/schedule.rb:
every 2.minutes do
#do something
end
Despite putting this task successfully into my cron jobs list it never gets executed. When I try to…
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Whenever gem for cron in Rails can not be running in Mac and can't found the log
in my config/schedule.rb:
set :environment, "development"
set :output, "log/cron.log"
every 2.minutes do
rake "reset_expired_pin:generate"
end
then i run whenever --update-crontab --set environment='development' then crontab -l i see the cron…
certual
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Whenever gem to trigger Rails' ActiveJob vs rake task to run regularly scheduled task | Rails 5
I'm working on a Rails 5.2 project that requires a scheduled asynchronous task to run nightly. I've been looking at the differences between using the whenever gem to trigger an ActiveJob job, and using whenever to trigger an old-style rake task…
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Schedule a task to work on 15th and the last day of the month in ruby
I have defined a rake task to work on the 15th and last day of the month at 8 am in schedule.rb file. I just wanted to confirm if I have done it the right way. Please have a look and suggest it.
run this task at 8am on 15th of every month
every '0 8…
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bundler: not executable: bin/rails in rails production while using whenever gem
I'm using whenever gem for cronjobs in rails application - production.
I'm getting an error bundler: not executable: bin/rails
scheduler.rb
every 15.minute do
runner 'TestJob.perform_later()'
end
crontab
0,15,30,45 * * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd…
Abhishek Aravindan
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Update crontab (Whenever gem)
By executing the whenever --update-crontab command, the following error returns:
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/whenever/cron.rb:132:in `parse_as_string': Couldn't parse: 31557600 (ArgumentError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/whenever/cron.rb:112:in…
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Rails cron with whenever
I don't understand why "whenever" does not work
Schedule.rb
every 2.minutes do
runner "Ping.check_pings"
end
Ping.rb
class Ping < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :LAN, :WAN, :info, :infastructure_id
def self.check_pings
…
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Ruby curly bracket block syntax is not working while do...end works
I am using this gem. When I use the following syntax, it works fine:
every :day do
rake 'billing:daily'
end
However, when I use the following syntax, the gem is giving me syntax error:
every :day { rake 'billing:daily'…
Utku
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Whenever Gem - Undefined method '(methodhere)' for User(call 'User.connection' to establish a connection):Class
I'm attempting to implement the Whenever gem into my RoR 5 application. Once a year I want it to run a method in my 'User' model, but for testing purposes I have made it once every minute, like so:
Schedule.rb:
set :output,…
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Whenever Gem AWS elastic beanstalk
Apologies if this is a duplicate - there are a few results with similar questions but most of the answers are quite dated and I am having trouble getting it to work.
I am using the whenever gem to run a single task every hour in my rails app but I…
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Whenever gem crontab being appended too instead of overwritten
It looks like my schedule.rb file contents are being appeneded to my crontab each time I deploy via capistrano. The only difference being the release directory
I seem to have this in my crontab repeated for probably as many times as I have deployed…
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Rails Whenever gem and cron job not working on development environment
so this is like my first time doing a cron job, and also using a whenever gem.
this is what's in my schedule.rb
set :environment, :development
every 1.minute do
command "rails runner /home/ec2-user/projectA/scripts/download.rb"
end
It's…
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Whenever gem doesn't work on Ubuntu
I'm trying to make an automated backup system for my rails databases using the backup and whenever gem. I can successfully generate a config file for this and I can also run the backup (the backup gets stored on an Amazon server).
For some reason…
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NameError using whenever gem in Rails 5
I am using whenever and seed_dump gem. I am getting the following error while running whenever --update-crontab.
config/schedule.rb:11:in `block in initialize': uninitialized constant Whenever::JobList::RAILS_ROOT (NameError)
my schedule.rb…
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Where should I check after I set up environment variables for rails cron named “Whenever”?
CentOS 6.8
Ruby on Rails
Cron: Whenever
I set up environment variables for DB name, DB password and DB host. I am sure those variables show up with env command.
But I cannot use them in rails codes or yaml files like <%= ENV["DB_NAME"] %>. They are…
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