Gem not found in Ruby cron job in RVM env

Question

I\'m trying to run a simple ruby script on my old PPC machine running 10.5 in an RVM environment.

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Answer 1

To load default RVM ruby environment for cron jobs, here is what I setup for user-mode RVM, assume the user is ohho, home folder is /home/ohho. To edit, enter crontab -e in command line:

MAILTO=""
SHELL=/bin/bash
BASH_ENV=/home/ohho/.bash_profile
HOME=/home/ohho

* * * * * rails -v > /home/ohho/env.txt

The last line is for testing rails (if installed) can be invoked properly. You should also check whether ~/.bash_profile loads the RVM environment (which is default for bash).

A detail explanation of SHELL and BASH_ENV can be found in Daniel's answer.