Need to run controller code periodically in the background

rubyonrails-talk
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I need to invoke certain portions of my controller periodically in the background without any user initiation [through views].

Currently, I hack this by using an unit test - obviously this wont work in a production environment.

Is there a way to invoke / post requests to a controller [with login and all] outside of the testing framework?

Any help would be appreciated.

anand

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well that depends what you want excatly.

- the plugin "backgroundrb" can run tasks periodically i guess, outside of rails in a new thread.

- ActionView's Prototype Helper "periodically call remote" can make periodical AJAX calls to a controller

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Thanks Thorsten.

I will check out backgroundrb.

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Joe

Dumb question - so the code in lib has access to rails infrastructure, as in full access to models and querying etc?

anand