# Problem involving Ruby, git and cron **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 16, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-involving-ruby-git-and-cron/165719 "2009-04-16T18:44:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![james-calivar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@james-calivar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/james-calivar)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-involving-ruby-git-and-cron/165719/1 "2009-04-16T18:44:24Z")
Sorry to post this here, it’s really a combined Ruby/Linux/Git problem but I’m hoping someone here can point me in the right direction. I’ve written a Ruby script that exports all known branches of some git repos to static files, and optionally performs builds of JavaScript projects. It looks like this: > To run: save this in a file, e.g. ~/widgets/export, make it executable and perform the following in the ~/widgets directory: chmod +x export mkdir repos mkdir static cd repos git clone git://github.com/jcoglan/heist.git git clone git://github.com/jcoglan/js.class.git Also, install these: sudo gem install hoe grit jake Then, go back to your home dir and run the script: cd ~ widgets/export You should see a ton of stuff appear in the ‘static’ dir. Also notice that the contents of static/js.class/0.9.0 and static/js.class/2.0.0 (for example) are different. Next, set this script up to run under cron using ‘crontab -e’ (First digit is the minutes past the hour the script will run. Replace my username with your own.) crontab -e 40 \* \* \* \* /home/jcoglan/widgets/export Wait for the script to run, then inspect the directories again. All versions of js.class are now the same, whereas the heist versions are still distinct. Also, If I remove the heist repo, js.class exports correctly. I’ve no idea why any of this should be the case: any help would be very gratefully received!