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Wednesday 30 September 2009

javan-whenever + WebFaction

I have had much trouble on a few different servers (including Webfaction) getting javan-whenever working with Capistrano and I finally started reading through Capistrano’s endless logging and discovered that the useful information (a descriptive, useful error message) was hidden away in a sea of useless noise - it turns out that sh simply w... More

Wednesday 17 June 2009

javan-whenever with ec2onrails

After reading the Railscast about javan-whenever, a great ruby gem that allows you to write cron 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 http://www.ca... More