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aherlambang
aherlambang

Reputation: 14418

writing a scheduler and backend in rails

I am trying to write a very simple rails backend backed up with a mysql database. It's very simple, I have two tables, one is the users table, tweets table, and a time for each tweet. Basically besides just an API, I would like to write a scheduler for posting the tweets at a specific time in the database. This is what confuses me.. how do I write a loop in the background that always checks the current time if there's any tweet that needs to be posted?

Any recommendation/guidelines in achieving this would be helpful.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 155

Answers (1)

lbz
lbz

Reputation: 9738

You need a background job management.

Periodically, you will check if there is anything to do and eventually do it.

Please check this relevant SO question.

Here are some other pointers:

Upvotes: 1

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