Adding ampersand between RAILS_ENV=production and bundle exec rake ...

[yepengfan]

I got an issue that the cron job does not run properly on ubuntu server. I use capistrano with whenever gem.

I found the solution is to add ampersand after RAILS_ENV=production.
Changing from:
0 9 * * 5 /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /var/vhosts/myserver/current && RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake ...... --silent'
To
0 9 * * 5 /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /var/vhosts/myserver/current && RAILS_ENV=production && bundle exec rake ...... --silent'

Is there any configuration for whenever to solve this issue? Every time I need to manually change crontab file after deployment.

Thanks in advance.

[Exordian]

if you add another ampersand between RAILS_ENV and bundle you're ignoring the production environment, i guess you have configured your jobs to run only run in the development env

[karthickms]

Hi @yepengfan,

I use whenever gem but the cron job is not working for me on ubuntu production server. I used following command for every 2 minutes send the mail

02 * * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /root/peatio/current && RAILS_ENV=production && bundle exec rake dailymail:email_sender --silent'

[benlangfeld]

@karthickms Please open your own issue rather than re-using unrelated tickets.

@yepengfan This is not a solution for any real problem and I think you're confused about what's going on here. You have an answer that should point you in the right direction. If you still have a problem, please explain what you mean by "not working" in more detail by including cron logs and potentially output from running the same command at a shell.