How to automatically Create a new page each day?

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Hi,

I'm completely new to Ruby and RoR and yet I have an assignment due in less than a week =( One part of the assignment states that my RoR app will have to create a new page each day. I'm wondering what is the best way to get this done? Should there be a continuous process running on the server to detect the start of a new day to create a page for that day or should it be more request-driven? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

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Hi,

I'm completely new to Ruby and RoR and yet I have an assignment due in less than a week =( One part of the assignment states that my RoR app will have to create a new page each day. I'm wondering what is the best way to get this done? Should there be a continuous process running on the server to detect the start of a new day to create a page for that day or should it be more request-driven? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

I'd probably just have a cronjob that ran once a day.

Fred

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What do you mean by ‘create a new page for each day’? Colin

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My idea is

  1. put one shell script file to create the page which will run every day at 12:01 am.
  2. name the file as today’s date.
  3. display the file named as todays date.

Simple!!!

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