Calling a Rails action from the command line

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Anyone knows how to call a Rails action from the command line?

I have an action that would update the database. I can call it from a web browser: http://localhost:3000/radar/update_radar

I want to create a cron job that would do this regularly

Thanks

Effie

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The proper way of doing this is to pull out the update code into a library (class under lib/), say RadarUpdater in lib/radar_updater.rb. Then you can access it easily from both a Controller and it’s accessible from the outside.

Your cron-job would look like:

          • ruby /path/to/rails/deploy/script/runner -e production “RadarUpdater.run”

and Controller:

def some_action RadarUpdater.run end

Jason