I'm having a rough time executing script/runner with a cron and RVM. I believe the issues lie with the rvm environment not being set before the runner is executed.
currently im throwing the error
/bin/sh: 1.sql: command not found
which is more than i've gotten earlier, so i guess that's good.
I've read this thread Need to set up rvm environment prior to every cron job but im still not really getting it. Part of the problem i think is the error reporting.
this is my runner thus far.
*/1 * * * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'rvm use 1.8.7-p352@2310; cd development/app/my_app2310 && script/runner -e development "Mailer.find_customer"'
as per the above link, i tried making a rvm_cron_runner.
i created a file and placed this in it:
#!/bin/sh
source "/Users/dude/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
exec $1
then i updated my crontab to this.
*/1 * * * * * /bin/bash -l -c '/Users/dude/development/app/my_app2310/rvm_cron_runner; rvm use 1.8.7-p352@2310; cd development/app/my_app2310 && script/runner -e development "Mailer.find_customer"'
This also has made no difference. i get no error. nothing.
Can anyone see what i'm doing incorrectly?
P.S i hope my code formatting worked.
Could you try to place the code you want to run in a separate script, and then use the rvm_cron_runner
?
So place your actions in a file called /path/cron_job
rvm use 1.8.7-p352@2310
cd development/app/my_app2310 && script/runner -e development "Mailer.find_customer"
and then in your crontab write
1 2 * * * /path/rvm_cron_runner /path/cron_job
The differences:
- this does not start a separate shell
- use the parameter of the
rvm_cron_runner
If you would use an .rvmrc
file, you could even drop the rvm use ...
line, I think.
You don't need to write a second cron runner (following that logic, you might as well write a third cron runner runner). Please keep things simple. All you need to do is configure your cron job to launch a bash shell, and make that bash shell load your environment.
The shebang line in your script should not refer directly to a ruby executable, but to rvm's ruby:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
This instructs the script to load the environment and run ruby as we would on the command line with rvm loaded.
On many UNIX derived systems, crontabs can have a configuration section before the actual lines that define the jobs to be run. If this is the case, you would then specify:
SHELL=/path/to/bash
This will ensure that the cron job will be spawned from bash. Still, your environment is missing, so to instruct bash to load your environment, you will want to add to the configuration section the following:
BASH_ENV=/path/to/environment (typically .bash_profile or .bashrc)
HOME is automatically derived from the /etc/passwd line of the crontab owner, but you can override it.
HOME=/path/to/home
After this, a cron job might look like this:
15 14 1 * * $HOME/rvm_script.rb
What if your crontab doesn't support the configuration section. Well, you will have to give all the environment directives in one line, with the job itself. For example,
15 14 1 * * export BASH_ENV=/path/to/environment && /full/path/to/bash -c '/full/path/to/rvm_script.rb'
Full blog post on the subject
You can use rvm wrappers:
/home/deploy/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.2.4/ruby
Source: https://rvm.io/deployment/cron#direct