writing cron tab for an environment other than production

[aurels]

Hi,

I'm trying to use whenever with a multistage setup (staging +
production). Here is my cap task:

namespace :deploy do
desc "Write the crontab file"
task :update_crontab, :roles => :db do
run "cd #{current_path} && whenever --write-crontab #{application}
_#{stage}"
end
end

I've named the task-set according to the app name and the current
stage. The problem is that it always runs in production, even if
staging is the current environment. I.e., aways outputs commands of
this kind:

(cd /.../awsome-app/releases/42 && RAILS_ENV=production /usr/bin/env
rake app:awsome_cron)

Is there a config option or a way to force the RAILS_ENV var to be set
at #{stage} ?

Thanks is advance,

Aurélien

[Javan Makhmali]

You sure can, here's a bit more info: http://wiki.github.com/javan/whenever/setting-variables-on-the-fly

Basically you'd do something like this:

run "cd #{current_path} && whenever --set environment=#{stage} --write-
crontab #{application}_#{stage}"


Javan

[aurels]

Thanks, that's exactly what I was trying to do ;)
Keep up the good work.

Aurélien
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