From: Lars Haugseth <njus@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T07:14:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any Plugins for log file analysis in ruby?

* Andrew Timberlake <andrew@andrewtimberlake.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Vikas Gholap <vikasg@aflatune.com> wrote:
> 
> > how i execute the ruby program on unix's cron job utility.?
> 
> If you're working with rails, you could write a rake task and call that from
> cron or just run a ruby script directly like:
> * * * * * /usr/bin/ruby /path/to/your/ruby/script.rb

If you're running a Rake task, most of these will expect the root of your
Rails project to be the current directory. Unless running in development
you will also want to specify the environment:

m h * * * (cd /path/to/project; RAILS_ENV=production /usr/bin/rake my:task)

-- 
Lars Haugseth

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