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mr_muscle
mr_muscle

Reputation: 2900

Rails update user status after 3 days - cron job alternative

In my app user can be blocked if failed the Legal Test - which means that the user model will change its status from active to inactive user.status = 'inactive'. The business requirement is to return the status to active after 3 days.

I know I could use cron job like below:

every 1.day, :at => '12:00 am' do
  User.where(status_updated_at: Date.today <= 3.days.ago)
        .update_all(status: 'active')
end

But instead of searching the whole User db maybe there is another, better way to achieve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 170

Answers (1)

SteveTurczyn
SteveTurczyn

Reputation: 36860

You don't really need to schedule a job, you can do this when you need to (i.e. the user actually tries to sign in) with an after_initialize

class User

  after_initialize :reinstate_if_ready

  def reinstate_if_ready
    self.status = 'active' if status_updated_at.nil? || status_updated_at <= 3.days.ago)
  end

end

Upvotes: 1

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