From: Steven Davidovitz <steviedizzle@...>
Date: 2006-06-17T04:03:18+09:00
Subject: Re: require and Cron

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 03:51:27 +0900
Hunter Walker <walkerhunter@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have another ruby file that is required to run my app.
> 
> require 'QuickBaseClient'  #this points to the QuickBaseClient.rb in the 
> same directory as the file I am running.
> 
> When I run this script from the command line: ruby init.rb  it works 
> great.
> 
> When Cron tries to run it, it balks at the fact that it can't find 
> QuickBaseClient
> 
> I imagine Cron is running this script in a temp dir, so I guess I need 
> to point at the original location of the QuickBaseClient.rb?  If so, how 
> do I do that in code.  I've always just used: require 'QuickBaseClient' 
> and Ruby has found the file and used its methods.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
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> 

You can create a bash script and execute that. Something like:

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/dir/to/app
ruby init.rb