javan-whenever not writing crontab with Capistrano deploy

Question

I’ve been trying to get whenever running on an ec2 instance that was created with ec2 on rails.

When I deploy with Capistrano it indicates that the crontab was written, but when I log into the server and run crontab -l it does not seem to have been changed.

If I go into the release folder and manually run whenever --write-crontab then run crontab -l - it gets updated properly.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

Capistrano is not indicating any errors so not sure how to debug, have tried a billion permutations and combinations and nothing changes.