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

every 1.day, :at =&g         


        

Answer 1

Add the following line of code at top of config/schedule.rb.

 ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = "#{@pre_set_variables[:environment]}"

and update the crontab using following command.

whenever --update-crontab pvcnxt --set 'environment=production'

and then finally restart crontab using command

service crond restart

Thats it!

Final config/schedule.rb looks this way

 ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = "#{@pre_set_variables[:environment]}"

 env :PATH, ENV['PATH']

 require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/environment")

 set :output, "#{Rails.root}/logs/cron_log_#{ENV['RAILS_ENV']}.log"

 every 1.day, :at => '00:00 am' do
  command "cd #{Rails.root}/lib/tasks && rake clean__posts_table_rake"
 end