Quick question, undefined local variable "every"

[viatropos]

Hey,

I have a simple one-file sample project that's just rake tasks:

require 'rubygems'
require 'whenever'

task :my_task do |t|
every 1.min do
rake "another_task"
end
end

But when I do that I get this error:

undefined local variable or method `every' for main:Object

If I add this to the file:

set :path, File.dirname(__FILE__)

I get the same error for that "set" method. It looks like its not
being registered in the project, but I do have the gems installed.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help,
Lance

[Javan Makhmali]

Lance,

Whenever's 'every' wasn't designed to use inside of a rake task like
that. It belongs in it's own file, the default being config/schedule.rb.

Take a look at the README file for an overview: http://github.com/javan/whenever/

Javan

[viatropos]

Thanks for getting back to me.

All of the examples use Rails as a base, so I don't see how you can
use Whenever without it. Could you provide a quick snippet/example
showing how to use it without Rails?

Thanks again,
Lance

[Roger Ertesvåg]

Whenever does not really rely on Rails, just Ruby. So as long as you
run whenever from a location that has a subdirectory named 'config'
with schedule.rb in it you should be fine.

[viatropos]

great! got it working, thanks!