[Docker] Use whenever with Docker + Rails

Introduction

If you're using Rails and you're implementing periodic processing, you'll probably mention whenever. Also, using Docker in a development environment has become commonplace these days. This time, I will summarize what you should be careful about when using whenever in such an environment. There is no Rails code. It's about Docker settings.

environment

Docker Ruby 2.6.3 Rails 5.2.3

Thing you want to do

Achieve periodic execution processing using whenever in Docker environment

Conclusion

It seems that cron is not installed in Docker by default, so install and start cron. Please refer to another article for how to start whenever.

Below are the settings.

Dockerfile

`Dockerfile`


FROM ruby:2.6.3 #version suits the environment

ENV LANG C.UTF-8
ENV TZ Asia/Tokyo

RUN apt-get update -qq && \
    apt-get install -y build-essential \
                       libpq-dev \
                       nodejs \
                       npm \
                       vim \
                       default-mysql-client \
                       cron \ #← Installation
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

RUN npm install n -g
RUN n 10.15.3
RUN service cron start #← Start cron

RUN gem install bundler -v 2.0.1
RUN gem install mysql2  -- --with-cppflags=-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include --with-ldflags=-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib

RUN mkdir /app
ENV APP_ROOT /app
ENV RAILS_ENV development
WORKDIR $APP_ROOT

ADD ./.git-credentials /root/.git-credentials
RUN git config --global credential.helper store

ADD ./app/Gemfile $APP_ROOT/
ADD ./app/Gemfile.lock $APP_ROOT/

RUN bundle install

ADD ./app/ $APP_ROOT/

Then build & up the container as usual.

Also, don't forget to check the startup with the following command.

$ service cron status

If it is running, you will see [ok] cron is running..

Now you can use whenever in the Docker environment. Regarding whenever, I think other people's articles are good, so please refer to that.

This person @ Esfahan's following article was very helpful. Configure cron with Rails whenever