It'd be interesting and useful for me to have your input on this:
Currently I have a basic rails app that does nothing particularly special.
I want to be able to upload an XML file to a directory and schedule my application to parse this XML file to a database every ~15 minutes.
My questions are this: What is the best (or your preferred) method of parsing XML and what is the best (or your preferred) method of scheduling tasks (perhaps with cron on Unix systems like the one my application is hosted on)?
I've been considering Nokogiri for parsing the XML and using Whenever to schedule the parsing but I'd appreciate and value your input.
I'm not familiar with Nokogiri or Whenever so this job is a lot bigger to me than it may seem to some of you that're more experienced with them so please bare that in mind when giving me your opinion.
This is the first step - once I've got the data being regularly updated, I need to output the contents of my database with dynamic graphics such as charts but I'll cross this bridge when I come to it.
Thank you.
