ruby-on-railsrakedaemoncronrunner

A cron job for rails: best practices?


What's the best way to run scheduled tasks in a Rails environment? Script/runner? Rake? I would like to run the task every few minutes.


Solution

  • I'm using the rake approach (as supported by heroku)

    With a file called lib/tasks/cron.rake ..

    task :cron => :environment do
      puts "Pulling new requests..."
      EdiListener.process_new_messages
      puts "done."
    end
    

    To execute from the command line, this is just "rake cron". This command can then be put on the operating system cron/task scheduler as desired.

    Update this is quite an old question and answer! Some new info: