Script/runner and cron, funny behavior

Rails
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I couldn’t figure out why my cronjobs weren’t executing correctly. They
would run, but the code would not be executed. Here’s what the problem
was:

This was the cronjob that was not working correctly:

          • /path/to/app/script/runner -e production “Code.to_execute”

And this is what I had to do to get it to work:

          • cd /path/to/app/; ./script/runner -e production
            “Code.to_execute”

Why does changing into the app’s directory before executing runner make
a difference? Anyone else run into this before?

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Why does changing into the app’s directory before executing runner make
a difference? Anyone else run into this before?

Dunno, but change that cron to this:

cd /path/to/app && ./script/runner…

That way if for some reason it can’t ‘cd’ it won’t try and do the
‘runner’…

-philip

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Ryan M. wrote:

I couldn’t figure out why my cronjobs weren’t executing correctly. They
would run, but the code would not be executed. Here’s what the problem
was:

This was the cronjob that was not working correctly:

          • /path/to/app/script/runner -e production “Code.to_execute”

And this is what I had to do to get it to work:

          • cd /path/to/app/; ./script/runner -e production
            “Code.to_execute”

Why does changing into the app’s directory before executing runner make
a difference? Anyone else run into this before?

Hi Ryan M.
Thx very much for your answer. I am also facing the same situation
before reading your post. Now me 2 execute my cron file successfully.

Thank you