Brian Candler wrote: > Don't bother. The operating system will close all open filehandles when > the process terminates. Thanks. With the same script I have another issue. When I execute the script from the command line it runs flawlessly, but when it's executed from cron I get the following error in my script: no such file to load -- mysql The line where the error occurs is: r = Rate.find(:first) My crontab looks like this: * * * * * /usr/local/bin/ruby /home/mischa/railsapps/aexscript/periodic/get_rate.rb production >> /home/mischa/railsapps/aexscript/periodic/get_rate.log So I use full path to everything. Any ideas?? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.