Any help on this will be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
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Regards,
Ankur
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Ankur Kumar <specialan...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I did the following to implement cron jobs in rails 3 using a "runner"
> instead of a rake task.
>
> *Step 1:* I have whenever gem installed and scheduler.rb has following:
>
> set :environment, 'development'
> set :output, {
> :error => "/log/error.log",
> :standard => "/log/cron.log"
> }
>
> every 1.minute do
> runner "Cron.sendAutomaticsSMS()"
> end
>
> *Step 2:*
>
> Cron file: lib/cron.rb
>
> class Cron < ActiveRecord::Base
>
> def **sendAutomaticsSMS**()
> ----some code here ---
> end
> end
>
> *Step 3:*
>
> whenever --update-crontab --set environment=development
>
> This updates crontab file.
>
> *Step 4:*
>
> Checked contents of crontab file using:
>
> crontab -e
>
> It opens cron tab file which has details of cron job method to be invoked:
> ------------------------------
>
> # Begin Whenever generated tasks for: store
>
> # End Whenever generated tasks for: store
>
> # Begin Whenever generated tasks for:
> /code/rails_projects/new/bhk/bigbhk- dev/config/schedule.rb
> * * * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd <*RAILS_APP_PROJECT_LOCATION*> &&
> script/rails runner -e development '\''**Cron.sendAutomaticsSMS()**'\'' >$
>
> # End Whenever generated tasks for:
> /code/rails_projects/new/bhk/bigbhk-dev/
>
>
> *Step 5:*
>
> Running cron job:
>
> $sudo service cron restart
>
> cron stop/waiting
> cron start/running, process 4027
>
> This does not do anything. I wait for operation as defined in
> sendAutomaticsSMS() method to execute but the cron doesn't even enter this
> method.
>
> I don't see any error in log/development.log and there is no log/cron.log
> in my rails app.
>
> Posted this question on
> Stackoverflow<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23880580/not-able-to-test-cron-job-using-whenever-gem-in-rails-3>as
> well.
> Thanks.
> --
> Regards,
> Ankur
>
>
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