Rails, using whenever gem in development

ruby-on-rails, whenever

Solution

Clear existing cron jobs.

crontab -r

Update cronjob with the environment.

whenever --update-crontab --set environment='development'

Problem

Sorry quick question here from a relative Rails newbie. I'm trying to use the Whenever gem to schedule a number of rake tasks. I can't for the life of me get it to actually begin running the cron jobs on my development machine. Judging from other stackoverflow threads, it appears I should add this: ``` set :environment, "development" ``` to my schedule.rb file. But then what? And then how do I stop the cron jobs once they've started? Using Rails 3.2.3 in OSX UPDATE: the answer is to run `$ whenever -w` which writes the cron job to a crontab file. The system then immediately starts running that crontab file automatically. Unfortunately, my logfile for whenever contains the following: `"rake aborted! Don't know how to build task <task name>"` I'm thinking this might be due to the known crontab/rvm issue, but any suggestions are welcome.

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