How to debug an issue of cron's not executing a given script — or other?
I have a Rails script that I would like to run daily. I know there are many approaches, and that a cron'd script/runner approach is frowned upon by some, but it seems to meet my needs. However, my script is not getting executed as scheduled. My application lives at /data/myapp/current , and the script is in script/myscript.rb . I can run it manually without problem as root with: /data/myapp/current/script/runner -e production /data/myapp/current/script/myscript.rb When I do that, the special log file ( log/myscript.log ) gets logged to as expected: Tue Mar 03 13:16:00 -0500 2009 Starting to