I have not used cron before, so I can't be sure that I did this right. The tasks I want to be automated don't seem to be running. I did these steps in the terminal:
- sudo gem install whenever
- change to the application directory
- wheneverize . (this created the file schedule.rb)
I added this code to schedule.rb:
every 10.minutes do runner "User.vote", environment => "development" end every :hour do runner "Digest.rss", :environment => "development" end
I added this code to deploy.rb:
after "deploy:symlink", "deploy:update_crontab" namespace :deploy do desc "Update the crontab file" task :update_crontab, :roles => :db do run "cd #{current_path} && whenever --update-crontab #{application}" end end
I did this in the terminal: whenever
It returned:
@hourly cd /Users/RedApple/S && script/runner -e development 'Digest.rss' 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * cd /Users/RedApple/S && script/runner -e development 'User.vote'
Running these commands individually in the terminal works:
script/runner -e development 'Digest.rss' script/runner -e development 'User.vote'
Now running a local server in development mode, script/server, I don't see any evidence that the code is actually being run. Is there some step that I didn't do? No guides for "Whenever" show anything else than what I have done.