Rails cron with whenever, setting the environment

Question

This question will probably only make sense if you know about the whenever gem for creating cron jobs. I have a task in my schedule.rb like

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Answer 1

Something else you may want to try if you're using bundler and capistrano.

In your deploy.rb file, when you set the :whenever_command, DO NOT simply do this:

set :whenever_command, "bundle exec whenever"

Instead, do this:

set(:whenever_command) { "RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} bundle exec whenever" }

Now, the RAILS_ENV environment variable will be available when the schedule.rb file is loaded, so in schedule.rb you can now do this:

set :environment, ENV['RAILS_ENV']

Voila! You're ready to go.