javan-whenever + WebFaction

I have had much trouble on a few different servers (including Webfaction) getting javan-whenever working with Capistrano and I finally started reading through Capistrano’s endless logging and discovered that the useful information (a descriptive, useful error message) was hidden away in a sea of useless noise - it turns out that sh simply was not finding the path to whenever in my personal Ruby install, so adding that path finally solved this problem….

	after "deploy:symlink", "deploy:update_crontab"

	namespace :deploy do
	desc "Write Crontab"
	task :update_crontab, :roles => :app do
	run "cd #{release_path} && /home/#{user}/ruby1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/bin/whenever --write-crontab"
	end
	end

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Sep 30, 2009

javan-whenever + WebFaction