http://5Valleys.com/tags/#{params[:tag_id]/posts en-us 40 Rails, Software Development, Western Montana, and other incoherent ramblings. I have a site with a cron that runs a Rake task every minute to do a few maintenance tasks. A user reported a problem and I went to look at the production log file to investigate, only to discover another problem. The cron task was quickly filling up the production log file. I have the environment.rb setting to rotate the logs, so it wasn't filling the server, but also meant that when I needed to go look at the logs, I only had about an hours worth, and the problem occurred an hour and a half ago. All log entries from the time the problem occurred had already been rotated out of existence. So, here's the solution I came up with. <a href='http://www.5valleys.com/posts/22-Special-RAILS-ENV-for-Cron'>continue...</a> Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:02:08 -0600 http://www.5valleys.com/posts/22-Special-RAILS-ENV-for-Cron jsgarvin Rails Cron