Cron and runner doesn't work anymore?

Rails
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Hello,

For a number of projects I have, I use the runner and a cron job to
run maintenance code every so often. I noticed since I updated to
rails 1.1.6, none of my cron jobs get executed anymore. I know that
the code still works because if I type in the line in the cron tab
manually it runs and I also checked the cron logs and made sure that
the runner script is called. My runner cron jobs just stopped working
on 3 of my servers after the 1.1.6 update.

To test, I setup a small application, here is my run class:

class Run

def self.test
puts “Hello World”
end

end

Here is the line in my crontab:

          • ruby /Users/carllerche/Developer/Ruby/test_themes/script/
            runner “Run.test” >> /Users/carllerche/run.log

yet nothing happens at all. Does anybody know what’s going on?

Thanks,
-carl

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Here is the line in my crontab:

          • ruby /Users/carllerche/Developer/Ruby/test_themes/script/
            runner “Run.test” >> /Users/carllerche/run.log

yet nothing happens at all. Does anybody know what’s going on?

Compare your environment variables from your shell to what cron has.
Odds
are cron is missing something that rails wants (and perhaps used to
figure
out on it’s own or something).

What does your #{RAILS_ENV}.log say? anything?

3

Carl,

There was a thread not unlike this one yesterday. Might it be the
same issue?

4

Another thing to note is that my cron jobs WERE running fine, then
they just died all of a sudden and I believe that coincides with when
I updated to 1.1.6

-carl

5

On Aug 25, 2006, at 7:18 PM, Philip H. wrote:

Compare your environment variables from your shell to what cron
has. Odds
are cron is missing something that rails wants (and perhaps used to
figure
out on it’s own or something).

What does your #{RAILS_ENV}.log say? anything?

My #{RAILS_ENV}.log is completely empty. Which environment variables
should I compare and how should I do it?

On Aug 25, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Zachary H. wrote:

Carl,

There was a thread not unlike this one yesterday. Might it be the
same issue?

Hmmm… I tried looking but I didn’t find anything. Do you know what
the title of the thread is?

Thanks,
-carl

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On Aug 25, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Carl L. wrote:

Thanks,
-carl

‘Cron w/Rails’ is the title. The gist is to get cron to the point
where it’s emailing you (or is otherwise giving you something you can
read) and then have it run

which ruby

and give you the results. Then compare that output with the output
you get by running the same command at the prompt. Did you happen to
modify ruby in any way around the same time that you upgraded Rails?

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I found the thread and it seems that it fixed it (was the path deal).
Thanks for the tip!

-carl