how to run a cronjob in rackspace

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hi everyone im trying to run the cronjob in rackspace server can anyone help me out how to run cronjob. before i used host getter server to run cronjobs with the help of cpanel when it comes to rackspace there is no cpanel .help me out guys..

thanks in advance

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You can take a look at the whenever gem, it provides a nice way to manage cron jobs through ruby and if you are deploying using capistrano you just need to add this two lines to your deploy.rb file:

set :whenever_command, “bundle exec whenever”

require “whenever/capistrano”

Give it a try =D

Best regards!

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thanks Rodriguez for your reply i am using rails 2.3.8 does whenever will work in 2.3.8. i tried but i am missing something i can not run a file with whenever i was following this link http://railscasts.com/episodes/164-cron-in-ruby can you plz help me out.as you said to add those 2 line in deploy.rb file in rails 2.3.8 you don’t find deploy.rb file. i am trying in my local system first so that i can implement in server.

Best regards!

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hi Rodriguez when i am trying wheneverize gem i use this command sudo rake gems:install and i get this message WARNING: ‘require ‘rake/rdoctask’’ is deprecated. Please use ‘require ‘rdoc/task’ (in RDoc 2.4.2+)’ instead. at /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/rdoctask.rb DEPRECATION WARNING: Rake tasks in vendor/plugins/fckeditor/tasks, vendor/plugins/open_flash_chart/tasks, vendor/plugins/prawnto/tasks, and vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/tasks are deprecated. Use lib/tasks instead. (called from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/tasks/rails.rb:10) i am unable to install the gem .