The Whenever gem is fantastic for defining cron jobs. With a little customization, we can have it monitor cron jobs and report logs, and status to services like AppSignal.

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A tutorial on using the Whenever gem to define and monitor cron jobs in Ruby on Rails, with customization to report logs and status to monitoring services like AppSignal.

Monitoring Cron Jobs with Whenever