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Run Ruby Script using cron job
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If you see this error when cron job runs a ruby script:

'require': cannot load such file ...

And you are using bundler e.g. require 'bundler/setup'. It's probably because the directory where cron runs the script is not correct, resulting in bundler fails to load gems.

Simply changed the directory to fix it, i.e.

* * * * * /usr/local/bin/ruby -C /home/example/scripts example_script.rb >>/home/example/log/cron.log 2>&1

Note -C will Causes Ruby to switch to the directory..

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