To externalize the monitoring, I like using the free Logentries add-on to watch my rake tasks. I just added an "Alert" for the text "rake aborted". This is nice because I will get alerted on any failure; I don't have to worry about whether there was a failure to send me an email about a failure.
On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:59:24 PM UTC-8, Kelly Felkins wrote: > > I would like my scheduler jobs to notify me if there is a failure. > > One possibility is to wrap the processing in a rescue block, and send an > email if an exception is raised. > > Is there something simpler available? For example in Vixie cron there is a > "mailto" option which sends the output of the cron, error or otherwise, to > the address specified by the mailto option. > > -Kelly > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
