Rails 'rake task' execute in ‘RAILS_ENV=production' with nohup

Question

I have rake task which continuously need to be active. Whenever I ran it by command

RAILS_ENV=production rake jobs:abc   

it works fine but when I close terminal rake job get stopped.So I found other solution on it by using nohup to run it in background.

I execute command:

nohup RAILS_ENV=production rake jobs:work &

but it gives error:

nohup: failed to run command ‘RAILS_ENV=production’: No such file or directory

Please suggest, to way execute rake task in a production environment.

Answer 1

Set the environment variable before the nohup command.

RAILS_ENV=production nohup rake jobs:work

Answer 2

Try this one

  nohup rake jobs:work RAILS_ENV=production

I have commented the solution above as well

Answer 3

If you need nohup functionality, you should also consider screen.

RAILS_ENV=production screen -L rake jobs:work

It starts a new terminal which isn't bound to your current session.

To come back to your normal terminal, type Ctrl+a and then d. You can now log out safely without terminating the rake task.

As a bonus, you automatically get a log file in screenlog.0.

You can come back to your rake process by typing :

screen -r