how to use Rails cron?

Hi Selvaraj,

I'm assuming you mean tying cron jobs to rails method calls? Rails has a built in script called runner that you can use to call Model methods, and there are a couple of other options as well depending what action you want to run with the cron job. Have a look here for a bit of a summary: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToRunBackgroundJobsInRails

So the answer in short is it depends a bit what you want to do, for instance I had a case where I needed to run a cron job to check the expiry of an rss feed related model so I used script/runner path_to_rails_app/script/runner -e production "Channel.check_expiry" with a cron job to check this periodically.

This approach I believe is aimed at when you need to run Model methods only, to run controller actions you may want to use something like BackgrounDrb (http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/) and setup a method to perform whatever action you need to run in the background.

Hope this helps,

Paul

hi all.. I m using cron for my application. already for my 1st task i use the schedule.rb again i want to use cron job again for my 2nd task. is it possible to use the same schedule.rb file? why i ask is whenever i modify any of my tasks settings it overwrites the schedule.rb file. so how can i solve this.. any ideas. Thanks for Any HELPS