runner task cannot find a gem

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Hi -

I have a cron job that won't work. I have installed a gem which works fine in the app, but the cron job fails, saying:

These gems that this application depends on are missing: - blackbook Run "rake gems:install" to install them.

I think this has to do with the path, I had to add the gem path to the top of my environment.rb file. Can someone point me in the right direction as to how to expand your gem path for a runner job?

Thanks, Dino

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dino d. wrote:

I have a cron job that won't work. I have installed a gem which works fine in the app, but the cron job fails, saying:

These gems that this application depends on are missing: - blackbook Run "rake gems:install" to install them.

I think this has to do with the path, I had to add the gem path to the top of my environment.rb file. Can someone point me in the right direction as to how to expand your gem path for a runner job?

Try writing your crontab command as:

env GEM_HOME=/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 /path/to/script/runner args

Or put export GEM_HOME=/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 in either /etc/profile or one of the user's profile initialization files.