Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres gem not found by cron job

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 08/11/2010 03:16 PM, Bill Longman wrote:
> <snip>
>> What's different between my root environment and the one in which cron
>> runs (with respect to ruby and its gems)? Where should I start looking?
>
> No direct answer, sorry, Michael.
>
> You might want to use:
>
>   /bin/bash -l -x -c /root/src/mailshears/bin/mailshears
>
> to at least help debug it.
>

Thanks for the tip. The cron environment was missing 
"RUBYOPT=-rauto_gem" -- adding it fixed the problem.

Dark magic, whatever it does.