Question

This is a noob question at its best but Google isn’t finding what I need.

I have a ruby script that I need to fire off via task scheduler. I thought I did it right by using the following:

cmd /k ruby test.rb

This works when starting the .bat file from the folder. However, if it runs from taskeng.exe it fails because its looking in my system32 folder. I don’t want it to run from system32 so how do i format this to run from say, c:/dev/

Again, sorry for the extremely noob question.

Answer 1

You can leave out cmd of that and just use

ruby test.rb

or rather (in your case):

ruby C:\Users\Foo\test.rb

or something like that. Giving the complete path to the script usually helps in finding it 😉

In any case, if you need the working directory you can set it in the scheduled task itself. Something akin to the following:

       

Likewise, if you actually need cmd in there. Just fill out the Start in field and you have a working directory.