Console script in the crontab

Rails
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I’m trying to run a console script from my crontab but I’m getting a
console error. It works fun when I run it from the command line. I’m
guessing there’s an environment variable I need to set but what is it?
Anyone have any advice?

I’m calling it like this:
/Users/alex/links/script/console production < /Users/Alex/links/digg.rb

And getting this error:
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10:in require': No such file to load -- readline (LoadError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10 from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:218:inrequire’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:218:in load_modules' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:216:ineach’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:216:in load_modules' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:21:insetup’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:54:in `start’
from /usr/bin/irb:13

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I’m trying to run a console script from my crontab but I’m getting a
console error. It works fun when I run it from the command line. I’m
guessing there’s an environment variable I need to set but what is it?
Anyone have any advice?

I’m calling it like this:
/Users/alex/links/script/console production < /Users/Alex/links/digg.rb

look into script/runner. It is meant to do these sorts of things…

So…

say you have RAILS_ROOT/lib/foo.rb:

class Foo
def self.foobar
#do your stuff here
end
end

you could then do:

RAILS_ROOT/script/runner “Foo.foobar” -e production

What’s nice is that you can use any of your models class methods as
well…

-philip