Setting Path for Whenever in Cron So It Can Find Ruby

Setting path for whenever in cron so it can find ruby

The solution is to put this in schedule.rb:

env :PATH, ENV['PATH']

Here's a little guide I put together on the topic.

How to set PATH variable in crontab via whenever gem

Ok, it seems as I found the solution. I found it here: https://gist.github.com/jjb/950975

I will update this answer when I have tested it

I have to put this into my schedule.rb

# If your ruby binary isn't in a standard place (for example if it's in /usr/local/bin,
# because you installed it yourself from source, or from a thid-party package like REE),
# this tells whenever (or really, the rails runner) where to find it.
env :PATH, '/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin'

Whenever gem cronjob not loading PATH from /etc/environment

In the end adding source /etc/environment to the .bash_profile (not .bashrc) ensures that the cron user loads the right variables and it is working now

Can't get Ruby Whenever working

I think the problem may have had to do with rvm and the .rvmrc file I had set up which loaded the correct rvm settings when I cd into the directory.

In attempting to ensure that the command was working opened a new terminal window and ran: bash -l -c 'cd /Users/me/apps/Test && bundle exec bin/rails runner -e development '\''Test.new.run'\'' >> /Users/me/apps/Test/log/cron.log 2>&1'

The first thing that came up was the standard 1 off rvm message:

You are using '.rvmrc', it requires trusting, it is slower and it is not compatible with other ruby managers,
you can switch to '.ruby-version' using 'rvm rvmrc to ruby-version'
or ignore this warning with 'rvm rvmrc warning ignore /Users/me/apps/Test/.rvmrc',
'.rvmrc' will continue to be the default project file in RVM 1 and RVM 2,
to ignore the warning for all files run 'rvm rvmrc warning ignore all.rvmrcs'.

********************************************************************************
* NOTICE                                                                       *
********************************************************************************
* RVM has encountered a new or modified .rvmrc file in the current directory,  *
* this is a shell script and therefore may contain any shell commands.         *
*                                                                              *
* Examine the contents of this file carefully to be sure the contents are      *
* safe before trusting it!                                                     *
* Do you wish to trust                                                         *
* '/Users/me/apps/Test/.rvmrc'?                                                *
* Choose v[iew] below to view the contents                                     *
********************************************************************************
y[es], n[o], v[iew], c[ancel]> 

Once I typed y and hit enter, the cron jobs are now executing properly.

Unfortunately, I'm still not seeing anything in my cron.log file.

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