whenever gem have cronjob on only one machine?

Question

We have a large deployment of around a dozen servers. We\'d like to use the Whenever gem but I can\'t figure out a way to say which machine the cron jobs should go on! We only w

Answer 1

If you deploy the project with Capistrano and you use the default Whenever recipe, you can create a new Capistrano role

role :whenever, "192.168.1.1"

and set the role in your deploy.rb file

set :whenever_roles, "whenever"

In this way, the task will be executed only on the specified server.