It figures that right after putting up my RubyConf talk the server I host terralien.com on would bounce, and I would find out that the cron job I set up to re-spawn the site didn’t quite work. Oh, and that all this would occur whilst I was out all day at meetings. And on top of this, I would attempt to show a client our portfolio page in the midst of a sales meeting and get a 500 error. Oh Murphy, how I love thee, let me count the ways…
Moral of the story? Test your cron jobs, especially the ones that only happen at system boot. Only an idiot wouldn’t (d’oh!).
Posted by Nathaniel
on Oct 27th, 2006
