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Rio
Rio

Reputation: 14872

Rails 3 cron via app?

I'm currently doing

http://localhost:3000/MyApp/update

which does everything I want it to do. I tried delayed_job but it didn't work, so I'm trying to use cron or some other method to do the same thing - I need to access update in order for that task to be done, and I'd like it to be done in the background, multiple times.

I also considered cron + wget but it seems rather hacky, and Mac doesn't come with wget by default (which is minimal, but cause for looking at alternatives).

What's the best approach to do so?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 152

Answers (1)

Cody Caughlan
Cody Caughlan

Reputation: 32748

You can execute arbitrary Ruby code in the context of a Rails environment by using runner, e.g. say you had a file like:

User.all.each { |u| u.send_email_update }

than you could run it from the command line like:

RAILS_ENV=production rails runner /path/to/script.rb

Put that in a cron and smoke it.

Of course, ensure that the user running the cron has rails in their $PATH or just specify the command via its absolute path.

Upvotes: 1

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