I don't know if there's a more Rails or Ruby way to do this, but the best I've done is write a ruby script that bootstraps Rails, get my work done through ActiveRecord (so I don't by pass any of my business logic), and then tell cron to run this script every so often.
The following code works for me in bootstrapping Rails:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Ensure the environment was specified if ARGV.length != 1 puts "usage: ruby dummy_records.rb <rails_env>" exit 1 end
$LOAD_PATH << File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__))
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = ARGV.first || ENV['RAILS_ENV']
require 'rubygems' require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../config/boot' require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/environment"
def connect(environment) conf = YAML::load(File.open(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../config/ database.yml')) ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(conf[environment]) end
# Open ActiveRecord connection connect(ARGV.first)
# Enter code here to interact with your models.
Warm regards,
David Richards
