Problem with RVM and fcron

atmosx · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2009 Posts: 37 Location: Brno

Hello,

I'm using Gentoo since ages but I have the bad luck to use gentoo and program in ruby. It's not a good comination. Anyway, I need to install a ruby-1.9.3 script on my gentoo server in order to run it. Problem is that there's no way to get 1.9.3 *easily* and when I'm using the online howtos about it, I get stuck trying to compile "rake". Compilation fails. I didn't find any way to get over that error - mind you my server is an rdc-chipset based device which means compiling packages takes time - so, I just installed RVM which is pretty handy in situations like this.

Then I stuck with crontab. My script needs to run once per week w/ the users permission. Crontab permissions were all messed up. Again the online howtos didn't help much. After loosing like 3 hours and not achievement proper permission setup - crontab had even the same group id with ssmtp, a total mess - I intalled fcron which looked much more flexible than vixie-cron anyway.

Now the problem is that I need fcron to play with RVM in order to load ruby-1.9.3 and gems. I did not find any way to do it yet. I've tried created a wrapper which sources rvm's version but didn't work. I tried to use PATH,SHELL,GEM_HOME variables directly through fcrontab but didn't work either.

Is there anyone who managed to do this: RVM + fcron??

best regards
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a3li · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 11:36 pm Post subject: Re: Problem with RVM and fcron

atmosx · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2009 Posts: 37 Location: Brno

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:22 pm Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming to Unsupported Software. The OP has moved on but never did explain his problem.

- John
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