0 2009-06-17T20:39:05-04:00 30 true <p>After reading the <a href='http://railscasts.com/episodes/164-cron-in-ruby'>Railscast</a> about <a href='http://github.com/javan/whenever/tree/master'>javan-whenever</a>, a great ruby gem that allows you to write <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron'>cron</a> jobs in highly readable ruby with an impossible to forget syntax (compared to the daunting obliqueness of straight cron), I tried to get it running with a site I am working on that is deployed by <a href='http://www.capify.org/'>Capistrano</a> to <a href='http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/'>ec2</a> with <a href='http://ec2onrails.rubyforge.org/'>ec2onrails</a> and requires a number of cron jobs. Troglodyte that I am, it took much headslamming, hair-pulling and full-fledged teary breakdowns before I finally email the person who wrote the gem and he suggested that Capistrano was probably issuing the command as another user other than the one I was trying to get a crontab for. Argh! With his suggestion, this is what I finally found did the job:</p> <script src="http://gist.github.com/131617.js"></script> <p>Apparently, there is also a -user option in whenever that can be used to accomplish similar goals....</p> 2009-06-17T21:16:37-04:00