Rake task vs script/runner

Rails
1

Hello, until now I allways used script/runner for running Rails cron
jobs

I wonder is there is any benefit (except not having any fake runner
model in the models directory) to use a rake task instead in lib/tasks

Thanks

2

Christophe G. wrote:

Hello, until now I allways used script/runner for running Rails cron
jobs

Hi,

I also want to use the script/runner to run the Rails cron jobs. But I
don’t know how to do that. So can you please share the code here so that
i will get some ideas?

Thanks in advance…

3

It’s very simple, all you have to do is create a new model in
app/models, eg. runner.rb

class Runner
def self.doIt()
end
end

Then, launch it from the command line
script/runner Runner.doIt
or a cron task
ruby /somedir/script/runner Runner.doIt

4

The difference between them is that script/runner boots Rails whereas a
Rake task doesn’t unless you tell it to by making the task depend on
:environment, like this:

task :some_useful_task => :environment do

do some useful task

end

Since booting Rails is expensive, it might be worth skipping if you can
avoid it.

Other than that, they are roughly equivalent.