From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2012-01-06T09:09:01+09:00
Subject: Re: crontab and ruby script


On Jan 5, 2012, at 02:30 , CC Chen wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I used crontab command such as
> "*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/ruby /local/myuser/rubyscript/script1.rb"
> 
> But it can't execute script1.rb, I let it print some message every 5
> min.
> 
> I also changed script1.rb to chmod 755.
> 
> 
> Does the crontab command is right?

Run 'env -i $SHELL --norc'. It will bring up a new naked shell that is equivalent to what cron runs. Run your command as-is in this shell to ensure it works correctly.