Crontab not running ruby script

Question

The crontab -l below doesn\'t seem to run. The script run by hand runs fine. Here is the error i\'m seeing

Dec  3 20:12:01 dahlia /USR/SBIN/CRON[13912]: (gigawat         


        

Answer 1

This is quite old but thought I'd comment anyway. RVM creates a wrapper for each version of ruby you install.

run this command replace 2.5.1 with your ruby version

rvm env --path 2.5.1

this gives you the path to the environment mine is

/home/username/.rvm/environments/2.5.1

you want just the rvm path

/home/username/.rvm/

take a look at the wrappers directory there should be a wrapper for each version and gemset you have installed. Test your script with the wrapper

/home/username/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.5.1/ruby /home/username/scripts/script.rb

or if you have a specific gemset

/home/username/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.5.1@gemset/ruby /home/username/scripts/script.rb

Use this command directly in your crontab

* * * * * /home/username/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.5.1/ruby /home/username/scripts/script.rb