Whenever gem controller method not working

Question

I'm trying to create a cron job that runs a controller method with the whenever gem but i'm having trouble.

config\schedule.rb

every 1.minutes do
  runner "Reset.reset"
end

lib\reset.rb

class Reset
  def reset
    logger.debug("This is the cron job")
  end
end

I also ran the whenever --update-crontab to update the cron job.

Why isn't the logger message showing up in the log?

Thanks for all the help.

Answer 1

That's because Reset.reset trys to call the reset method on the Reset class. That is, Reset.reset trys to call a class method.

Your reset method is an instance method. To define a Reset.reset class method, use:

class Reset
  def self.reset
    logger.debug("This is the cron job")
  end
end

Also, you'll need to make sure that you have a self.logger class method as well, or that code will just die.

Lastly, for your own edification: Reset as you have it written isn't a controller. It's just a plain old ruby object.