How to work with whenever gem?

[mirelon]

Whenever is a gem for running scheduled jobs.

It supports definitions of jobs like this:

every 1.day, :at => '4:30 am' do
  runner "MyModel.task_to_run_at_four_thirty_in_the_morning"
end

When I use Timecop.travel 1.day in a test, I would expect scheduled jobs to run. (not the one definned in crontab after running wheneverize, just the ruby code in schedule.rb)

What solution do you propose?

[tom-lord]

whenever works simply by acting as a ruby DSL to generate a crontab.

• The code above does not "run" as you describe. That's simply not how it works. Only the crontab is run.
• In order to test the code in the manner you describe, you'd need to (1) generate the crontab, and then (2) update the system clock to be at a new time (e.g. 1 day ahead).
• It would only make sense to perform such a test at an end-to-end level, regardless. This is not something you should be doing with Timecop. (Or, quite likely, at all. Why not just explicitly re-trigger MyModel.task_to_run_at_four_thirty_in_the_morning within the test?)