Periodic Task in Rails

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

Does the rails framework supports the execution of periodic tasks?

Supose that I need to process RSS Feeds to update the database of the web application. Is this possible?

Thanks,   Gama Franco

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Your best bet will probably be backgroundrb http:// backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/

scott.

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or call rails code by using the runner, like this: RAILS_ENV=development script/runner “p Product.find_all” Put it in a cronjob to run it till the end of times :wink:

Gert