What's this called (nuby on rails question)

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When your server does 1 Ruby operation a day without anyone having to visit the site to make it happen. Let's say the operation would be to create an automatic blog post on your blog site every 24 hours. This is an example what I am curious about if any RoR code can be run without users visiting. Also is this an advanced or beginner's topic?

Thanks! Sam

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Hi,

Based on your OS you can schedule a CRON job/ scheduled task to hit an url to create a blog etc

NAYAK

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Sam,

I performed an analysis on background processing alternatives (see below). I greatly recommend rolling out your own daemon for recurring jobs, or using starling+workling for offloading jobs from your rails app. Both alternatives are covered in excellent railscasts by Ryan Bates.

Cheers, Sazima

    BACKGROUND PROCESSES