How to make the whenever gem to run a cron job

Rails
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how to make the whenever gem to run a cron job?
I have installed the whenever gem into my rails project
successfully,could any one tell me on how i can get this gem run a rake
task for me…

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On 7 January 2012 04:46, dv dhanadan [email protected] wrote:

how to make the whenever gem to run a cron job?
I have installed the whenever gem into my rails project
successfully,could any one tell me on how i can get this gem run a rake
task for me…

If you are using cron then you do not need to use whenever. Simple
run the rake task from cron.

Colin

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Whenever just helps to use cron with simple ruby syntax.
To make it run cronjobs. You need to:

  1. Exec in your project folder:
    wheneverize .
    This will create config/schedule.rb file.

  2. There type some action needed to be done with cron:
    every 3.hours do
    rake “my:rake:task”
    end

  3. Save it and execute that
    whenever --update-crontab
    This will update crontab file.
    You can ensure that crontab is written by
    crontab -l

  4. And final point restart cron
    sudo services cron restart

Enjoy =)

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whenever --update-crontab -set=‘environment=development’

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“And final point restart cron
sudo services cron restart”

I am using Ubuntu 10.04,i tried running this code sudo /etc/init.d to
restart the cron,but did not work,do you have any fixes for that

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On 7 January 2012 10:50, Alex M. [email protected] wrote:

Whenever just helps to use cron with simple ruby syntax.

If I had looked up whenever before replying then my post might have
been more helpful :frowning:

Colin

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dv abhi,
Can you provide more info?
Have you tried to run sudo services cron restart and what output it
gives?