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    <p>Using Whenever 0.7.3, Rails 3.2.2, Ruby 1.9.3, Passenger 3.0.11 on a CentOS 5.6 server (I'm not using rvm). The problem is that the cron jobs created by whenever are clearly executed, I can see them in the Cron log, however they don't actually execute the Rails code. If I copy the cron code and paste it in the terminal it works as expected and does.</p> <p>The code to be executed:</p> <pre><code>class SomeModel &lt; ActiveRecord::Base #Delete all items that haven't been updated for 2 hours or more def self.cron_job SomeModel.destroy_all(updated_at &lt; ?", 2.hours.ago]) end end </code></pre> <p>The schedule.rb:</p> <pre><code>set :output, "/var/log/cron" every 1.day, :at =&gt; '4:45 am' do runner "SomeModel.cron_job" end </code></pre> <p>Which generated the following cron (output crontab -l):</p> <pre><code># Begin Whenever generated tasks for: site_name 45 4 * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /home/user/domains/site_name &amp;&amp; script/rails runner -e production '\''SomeModel.cron_job'\'' &gt;&gt; /var/log/cron 2&gt;&amp;1' # End Whenever generated tasks for: site_name </code></pre> <p>If I check the following morning I find this in the cron log:</p> <pre><code>Apr 14 04:45:01 node1 crond[9155]: (root) CMD (/bin/bash -l -c 'cd /home/user/domains/site_name &amp;&amp; script/rails runner -e production '\''SomeModel.cron_job'\'' &gt;&gt; /var/log/cron 2&gt;&amp;1') </code></pre> <p>However the items that should have been deleted are still in the database. If I copy the code cron is supposed to execute (/bin/bash -l -c 'cd ... 2>&amp;1' and execute it from the terminal then the items are removed as expected.</p> <p>Also when I execute the code manually from the terminal there are no errors, in the cron log i see the following:</p> <pre><code>from script/rails:5:in 'require' from script/rails:5 from script/rails:5:in 'require' from script/rails:5 </code></pre> <p>At moments where several cron jobs are executed this "error(?)" is printed only once in the log.</p> <p>Is there a difference between executing something from a cronjob or entering the code in the terminal? Why can there be a difference and how do I ensure that it also works from the cronjob? Also is the log output supposed to be an error, it's not telling me much unfortunately.</p>
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