Hi railers,
I have a quick question - I think it will be answered fairly easily methinks.
What's the best practice (naming conventions, where to place in project etc) for creating a job to be ran every day?
For example - want to run a ruby script to grab an xml feed and persist it in a database.
Thanks
Andrew
Put the job in the model. then run it with script/runner, via cron or whatever.
script/runner -e production Foo.daily_task
That's bloody fantastic! Thank you.
You can find a couple alternative solutions here:
I suspect Andrew's solution at the bottom of that post is probably best. Better than mine yes:-)
good luck! Tim
That seems a better alternative. Didn't seem quite right in the model,
and in the controller it's a bit out of place. Tasks sounds like what
the thing is. A task 