Add a rake task to rewrite the crontab-example file

As suggested by Louise Crow, this new rake task reuses
the convert_ugly function to rewrite the crontab-example
file into a usable crontab file.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/tasks/config_files.rake b/lib/tasks/config_files.rake
index 33e4a9e00..d0e4001f0 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/config_files.rake
+++ b/lib/tasks/config_files.rake
@@ -48,5 +48,23 @@ namespace :config_files do
         end
     end
 
+    desc 'Convert Debian .ugly crontab file in config to a form suitable for installing in /etc/cron.d'
+    task :convert_crontab => :environment do
+        example = 'rake config_files:convert_crontab DEPLOY_USER=deploy VHOST_DIR=/dir/above/alaveteli VCSPATH=alaveteli SITE=alaveteli CRONTAB=config/crontab-example'
+        check_for_env_vars(['DEPLOY_USER',
+                            'VHOST_DIR',
+                            'VCSPATH',
+                            'SITE',
+                            'CRONTAB'], example)
+        replacements = {
+            :user => ENV['DEPLOY_USER'],
+            :vhost_dir => ENV['VHOST_DIR'],
+            :vcspath => ENV['VCSPATH'],
+            :site => ENV['SITE']
+        }
+        convert_ugly(ENV['CRONTAB'], replacements).each do |line|
+            puts line
+        end
+    end
 
 end