Accessing Sinatra settings object from within a Job

[grahamb]

Forgive me if this is obvious; I'm new to Sinatra and Ruby in general. How, if at all, can I access the Sinatra settings object from within a Job? I wanted to have some config settings stored in YAML files, so I added a method to config.ru to read them in and add them to settings. From within config.ru, I can access them (e.g. settings.bamboo[:bamboo_host] but from within a Job file I get a NoMethodError when trying to access settings.bamboo. When I try to access settings.auth_token or settings.defaut_dashboard from my Job, it returns nil.

Here's what I'm doing to read in the config files (from within the configure block in config.ru).

Dir.glob('config/*.yml').each do |f|
  config_name = File.basename(f, '.*')
  raw_config = File.read(f)
  config = YAML.load(raw_config).symbolize_keys
  set config_name.to_sym, Proc.new { config }
end

[pushmatrix]

Try Sinatra::Application.settings.auth_token

[grahamb]

@pushmatrix Hmm. Still nil from the Job file, at least outside the SCHEDULER.every block. Inside that block I can access both settings.auth_token and Sinatra::Application.settings.auth_token. Any idea why?

Here's my job, in both working and non-working form: https://gist.github.com/grahamb/6502637

[pushmatrix]

Try just Sinatra::Application.auth_token

[grahamb]

Still nil

[grahamb]

I'm wondering if there's some sort of timing issue. If I have my jobs scheduled using, say
SCHEDULER.every '30s', :first_in => 0 do
I'll get a NoMethod error right after starting dashing. Subsequent runs of the job are fine. It's also fine if I remove :first_in.

[gabrielpoca]

Hi, I have the same problem. Looking into the code is obvious it wont work, dashing.rb is loading every file in jobs folder before you have settings.

You can rename the jobs folder to something else like my_jobs and then require every job in the end of the config.ru when sinatra is already running, as example:

 require File.expand_path("../my_jobs/job.rb", __FILE__) 

Hope it helps some looking for it.

[sjernigan]

Seems to work for me..you could include something along the lines of

job_dir = File.expand_path("./my_jobs/")
Dir.new(job_dir).each do |file|
  begin
    require File.join(job_dir,file) if file.match(/.*\.rb/)
  rescue Exception =>e
    puts "Failed to load job #{file} due to exception #{e}: #{e.backtrace}"
  end
end

[phoet]

@pushmatrix thx, was just looking for this 😄

[cob16]

Instead of renaming you can use @sjernigans code at the end of configre do and before add

ENV["JOB_PATH"] = 'dashing can you wait a sec before you load the jobs?'

at the top of your file