I recently changed from rvm to asdf.
Since then, I can't get cronjobs to run.
crontab -l
* * * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /var/www/jobs/code && RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake cron_test' >> /tmp/cron_test_output 2>&1 /tmp/cron_error
gives me /tmp/cron_error: bundle: command not found. There is no output to stderr.
gem install bundler has not worked for the jobs user.
Not sure where to install bundler to make this work.
The rake tasks work when run independently. The cronjobs that are not rake tasks run. Cron is working.
Edit:
While the cronjobs were working before, they obviously can't now find the location of bundler. By changing bundle exec to the full path /home/jobs/.asdf/shims/bundler exec, I have managed to get this to work.
I have been using the whenever gem to create cron jobs for rake tasks. Turns out the easiest way to get around this problem is to make sure that the environment path is included in the whenever generated crontab.
within config/schedule.rb for the whenever gem, I added the following:
env :PATH, ENV['PATH']
and now everything is working as the cron job can now find the bundler.
Based on this issue from the whenever gem.
And this one too.
I'm trying to run rake task with cron on Ubuntu with rvm
My crontab -l
* * * * * cd /media/sf_visa-tracker/ && /home/ruslan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/bin/rake parse RAILS_ENV=production >> /var/log/visa-parse.log 2>&1
which rake says
/home/ruslan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/bin/rake
And I keep getting this error in my log (/var/log/visa-parse.log)
/usr/bin/env: ruby_executable_hooks: No such file or directory
Also, if I run cd /media/sf_visa-tracker/ && /home/ruslan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/bin/rake parse RAILS_ENV=production from my terminal, rake task works.
Pls help ;)
The simplest way to use rvm with cron is to use rvm's wrappers. Your shell sets up a whole bunch of rvm-related environment when it starts, and that's missing from your cron job. The wrappers are versions of the Ruby-related commands that take care of this for you.
In this case, if you have rvm installed to /usr/local, your cron job should look something like this:
* * * * * cd /media/sf_visa-tracker/ && /usr/local/rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.1.0/bin/rake parse RAILS_ENV=production >> /var/log/visa-parse.log 2>&1
You could also bundle up your rvm setup into a shell script that loads rvm before invoking rake; there's more details of both approaches in rvm's documentation on working with cron.
I struggled to get something that worked and seemed clean. Here's what I ended up doing in case it helps.
crontab
0 5 * * * /home/deploy/apps/myproject/shared/cron/daily_updates.sh
I put the script in myproject/shared since I'm using Capistrano and that seemed like a good place for things that would persist between releases.
shared/cron/daily_updates.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# You will need to update this as you bump ruby versions
source /home/deploy/.rvm/environments/ruby-2.3.1#myproject
# Since I had a separate place for Rails specific environment variables (e.g. secrets, app keys)
# you should set the permissions on that file to be owner read/write only
source /home/deploy/.rails_env
cd /home/deploy/apps/myproject/current
rake RAILS_ENV=production daily_update:send_updates 2>&1
I am trying to use whenever to execute a rake task onces a day. Im getting this error
/bin/bash: bundle: command not found
/home/app/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/dependency.rb:247:in `to_specs': Could not find bundler (>= 0) amongst [minitest-1.6.0, rake-0.8.7, rdoc-2.5.8] (Gem::LoadError)
from /home/app/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/dependency.rb:256:in `to_spec'
from /home/app/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:1210:in `gem'
from /home/app/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/bundle:18:in `<main>'
Here is my crontab
# Begin Whenever generated tasks for: /home/af/www/app/releases/20120216172204/config/schedule.rb
PATH=/home/af/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180#global/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
0 0 * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /home/af/www/app/releases/20120216172204 && rvm 1.9.1-p180; RAILS_ENV=production /home/af/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/bundle exec rake daily:stats --silent >> /home/af/www/app/releases/20120216172204/log/cron.log 2>&1'
# End Whenever generated tasks for: /home/af/www/app/releases/20120216172204/config/schedule.rb
I'm at a loss as to why it isn't working. If I run the command:
cd /home/af/www/app/releases/20120216172204 && rvm 1.9.1-p180; RAILS_ENV=production /home/af/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/bundle exec rake daily:stats --silent >> /home/af/www/app/releases/20120216172204/log/cron.log 2>&1
It works fine, not sure whats going on here.
You can also ensure your PATH ends up in the crontab, by putting the following at the top of the schedule.rb file:
env :PATH, ENV['PATH']
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/whenever-gem/yRLt3f2jrfU/Exu3xfCo8DAJ
If above solution don't work for you, try:
env :GEM_PATH, ENV['GEM_PATH']
In my case I just ran :
rvm env --path -- ruby-version[#gemset-name]
Referring to cron job setup doc
Added new source line to the command for ruby path
before bundle command in the crontab -e
source /usr/local/rvm/environments/ruby-1.9.3-p392;
Now the commands like as below:
Before:
0 4 * * * cd /home/current && bundle exec rake my_rake RAILS_ENV=production
After:
0 4 * * * cd /home/current && source /usr/local/rvm/environments/ruby-1.9.3-p392; bundle exec rake my_rake RAILS_ENV=production
Cheers!!!
After so many try outs the following seems to work
Type the following from terminal
Type crontab -e
This opens the crontab for editing. You will see two lines as below:
# cron clears out environment variables, but Rubber.root/script/rubber uses
# "rvm do default" to run, so no longer any need to setup ruby env vars here,
# all we need is PATH
PATH=/<path to bundle>/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/bin:/usr/local/rvm/gems
AND
# Begin Whenever generated tasks for: /mnt/wamjoke-production/releases/20120912$
PATH=/<path to bundle>/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/bin:/usr/local/rvm/gems
Comment out both lines beginning with PATH.
Do the above step whenever you run "bundle exec whenever" command. And it works.
No idea why PATH is misleading the environment.
I hate this problem - I've spent hours trying to solve it too.
What works for me is to add
RAILS_ENV=production; source /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm;
before the bundle command.
Forget about PATH settings in cron files. Setting the PATH does not work.
Set the path to bundle explicitly in your config/schedule.rb
set :bundle_command, "/usr/local/bin/bundle"
You can try below solution which I found while googling and that works for me finally....hope that should work with you.
I implemented and tested the same on production make sure that to change environment accordingly -
set :output, "{your path on the server}/log/cron_log.log"
set :environment, :production
env :PATH, ENV['PATH']
job_type :rbenv_rake, %q!eval "$(rbenv init -)"; cd :path && :environment_variable=:environment bundle exec rake :task --silent :output!
Best luck, This issue occurred after 3 years as I was using before just simple what given on the gem documentation on production.
I'm using Ruby 2.x and Rails 4.2 with whenever 0.9.4 latest version. It should work with earlier version as well, if the nature of the issue is same.
thank you.
I think you should try explicitly setting the GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH environment variables in your crontab. You could also try running something like gem list --local or gem environment through cron and checking the output.
I played around with this all afternoon and couldn't find a better solution. Here is what I have come up with
bundle install --binstubs
and then run
bin/rake daily:stats
By executing a command that way: /bin/bash -l -c
You are launching a bash command as a login shell which is going to source (execute) /etc/profile bash file as a setup file. By doing so, if you check this file, it might have bash command lines that erase your previous $PATH which you do not want to since it contains your path to your bundle and all your other commands in the first place.
To fix this issue you just have to remove the lines related to set up the $PATH variable in your /etc/profile file.
This is a ENV['PATH'] not set issue. The most elegant way to fix this is to append the rvm related scripts to the path right after the install. Add the following lines to beginning of .bashrc ( beginning and not end as when .bashrc is accessed by a non-interactive shell, the line [ -z "$PS1" ] && return throws error and the subsequent lines are not executed.
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin # Add RVM to PATH for scripting
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
and not try to explicitly set PATH and sully environment variables.
For those using rbenv you can use the included shim /home/username/.rbenv/shims/bundle
0 0 * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /home/af/www/app/releases/20120216172204 && RAILS_ENV=production /home/af/.rbenv/shims/bundle exec rake daily:stats --silent >> /home/af/www/app/releases/20120216172204/log/cron.log 2>&1'
in 2021, I found a basic solution, just add on top of schedule.rb
env :PATH, ENV['PATH']
set :output, "log/cron_log.log"
set :runner_command, "rails runner"
from:
https://github.com/javan/whenever/issues/665
I solved this problem by printing out my environmental variables
printenv
finding the ones that look related to Rails. One was a path to gems, the other was GEM_HOME and prepending the command in cron with these two:
PATH=$PATH:/home/petr/gems/bin GEM_HOME=/home/petr/gems program_executable
Also in 2021, adding this in schedule.rb worked for me:
set :job_template, "bash -l -c 'PATH=#{ENV['PATH']} && :job'"
All jobs are by default run with bash -l -c 'command...' (https://github.com/javan/whenever)
So I made bash include ENV['PATH'] in PATH at the beginning and now rails are called from the proper rbenv.
For modern fix, add this line in capistrano deploy.rb,
set :whenever_command, "bundle exec whenever"
[root#smbserver current]# crontab -e
02 22 * * 1-5 /bin/bash -l -c /shell/day.sh
30 14 * * 0 /bin/bash -l -c /shell/week.sh
0 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /var/www/rails/xxx/releases/20110105175853 && RAILS_ENV=production rake ts:rebuild --silent'
hi, guys. this is a crontab task generated by whenever. it's rebuilding the sphinx index.
it doesn't work when it run as a crontab task, with no error in the /var/log/cron log. but it works when I run the command manually.
anybody can help? thank you very much.
Your cron task looks alittle bizarre to me. Not sure that you want to be calling ts:rebuild all the time, you only need to rebuild if your server gets rebooted, to update the index you just run ts:index, below is the cron task I use for my rails app, it refreshes the sphinx index every 5 minutes.
if your using the user crontab this should work:
*/5 * * * * cd /home/appuser/rails-app; RAILS_ENV=production rake ts:index >> /dev/null
if your putting your crons in /etc/cron.d/ you will need to add the username, like this:
*/5 * * * * appuser cd /home/appuser/rails-app; RAILS_ENV=production rake ts:index >> /dev/null
These settings are for an Ubuntu box, but should work with most linux distros.
Hope this helps.
Stack:
Apache2
Rails 2.3.8
RedHat Linux
Ruby Enterprise 1.8.7
Got the following rake task in my app user's crontab which is meant to pull records into a database table every 15 min:
*/15 * * * * app_user cd /var/www/apps/my_app/current/ && rake thing:do_stuff RAILS_ENV=production
I can see that the cron daemon is running this task in the cron log, but the database table it's supposed to pull records into doesn't change. This task is working without error when I run it manually in the /var/www/apps/my_app/current directory, and pulls records into the table as I expect it to.
I reset the PATH variable in the crontab to reflect using REE, thinking maybe the default path wouldn't jive with /opt/ruby-enterprise...
How do I get this rake task to actually run with cron?
0,15,30,45 * * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /var/www/apps/my_app/current && RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake thing:do_stuff --silent'
Try to use full path to rake binary (run in console which rake and replace rake with full path).
For example, if which rake returns the following path:
/Users/bob/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/rake
You should use the following command to run the rake task:
/Users/bob/.rvm/bin/rvm all do bundle exec rake allocator:snapshot
and I prefer whenever gem for cron jobs in ruby
How to detect if task failed in cron? On fail cron tries to send email. So you can configure postfix to use your smtp settings (from google for example), and add file ~/.forward containing only your email to home directory of user who is running that cronjob in your system.