Rails - May 2014 - Not able to test cron job in development using Whenever gem in rails 3

I did the following to implement cron jobs in rails 3 using a "runner"
instead of a rake task.

*Step 1:* I have whenever gem installed and scheduler.rb has following:

  set :environment, 'development'
  set :output, {
 :error    => "/log/error.log",
 :standard => "/log/cron.log"
  }

  every 1.minute do
  runner "Cron.sendAutomaticsSMS()"
  end

*Step 2:*

Cron file: lib/cron.rb

    class Cron < ActiveRecord::Base

      def **sendAutomaticsSMS**()
         ----some code here ---
      end
    end

*Step 3:*

    whenever --update-crontab --set environment=development

 This updates crontab file.

*Step 4:*

Checked contents of crontab file using:

    crontab -e

 It opens cron tab file which has details of cron job method to be invoked:
------------------------------

    # Begin Whenever generated tasks for: store

    # End Whenever generated tasks for: store

    # Begin Whenever generated tasks for:
/code/rails_projects/new/bhk/bigbhk-     dev/config/schedule.rb
    * * * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd <*RAILS_APP_PROJECT_LOCATION*>
&&
script/rails runner -e development
'\''**Cron.sendAutomaticsSMS()**'\'' >$

    # End Whenever generated tasks for: /code/rails_projects/new/bhk/bigbhk-dev/


 *Step 5:*

Running cron job:

    $sudo service cron restart

    cron stop/waiting
    cron start/running, process 4027

 This does not do anything. I wait for operation as defined in
sendAutomaticsSMS() method to execute but the cron doesn't even enter this
method.

I don't see any error in log/development.log and there is no log/cron.log
in my rails app.

Posted this question on
Stackoverflow<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23880580/not-able-to-test-cron-job-using-whenever-gem-in-rails-3>as
well.
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Ankur

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