How to run rake task, not used cron

Question

Ruby 1.8.7 I have a post.rake and how to run rake task every day?

solution add a script in cron:

0 0 * * * /path/script.sh

script.sh:

#!/bin/bash
source /home/user/.bashrc
cd /path/to/project
export RAILS_ENV=production
bundle exec rake post:crontask -s

May have other solutions?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '13 at 07:26

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That's not a bad approach. There are some popular Ruby gems that make things easier. whenever and rufus-scheduler are both popular. They also work with Ruby 1.8.7, which isn't likely to be true of most alternatives.

answered Mar 15 '13 at 07:26

Jim Stewart

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 15 '13 at 07:44

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What about

0 0 * * * cd /path/to/project && env RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake post:crontask -s

edited Mar 15 '13 at 07:44

Sergio Tulentsev

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answered Mar 15 '13 at 07:28

Stuart M

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How to run rake task, not used cron

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