# Constantly Running a Script **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 1, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/constantly-running-a-script/136422 "2008-05-01T23:00:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/constantly-running-a-script/136422/1 "2008-05-01T23:00:26Z")
Hello, I have a synchronization program built on InstantRails v1.6. I need to have an option that makes my program run daily at a certain time. Thus, I need a script or something that is constantly running and checking the time, then when the time is right, do the sync. Is there a way to do this with InstantRails? Any help is appreciated! Thanks, - Jeff M. ---
**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/constantly-running-a-script/136422/2 "2008-05-02T02:43:21Z")
That’s more of an OS function than a rails function isn’t it? So–on windows that’d be a scheduled task. Or do I misunderstand the goal? ---
**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/constantly-running-a-script/136422/3 "2008-05-02T00:32:54Z")
Might want to read through some of these articles to set up a cron: [http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=cron+introduction&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8](http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=cron+introduction&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) Then you could put the cron script in the ‘script’ folder of your rails application and have it call whatever ruby file you need to run at a particular time. So for example, at 5 pm every night I want to write ‘Closing Time!’ to the error log: Add this line to crontab to run at 5: 00 5 \* \* \* root sh /path/to/your/rails/app/root/folder/foo.sh In the sh file: ruby script/foo.rb run And then in foo.rb you have whatever code you need, in our case: RAILS\_DEFAULT\_LOGGER.error(”\n Closing Time! \n”) Hope this helps! ESPNDev On May 1, 2:00 pm, Jeff M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/constantly-running-a-script/136422/4 "2008-05-02T03:32:34Z")
I think Cron will work. I just have to flesh out everything around it before I test it. Thanks!! ---
**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/constantly-running-a-script/136422/5 "2008-05-02T16:46:04Z")
I"ve been using rufus-scheduler with great results. It serves the same function as cron (run a job periodically), but is portable to windows and is ruby-centric, and efficient on resources since it’s not reloading the rails environment each time a job runs. ``` http://rufus.rubyforge.org/ ``` ---
**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/constantly-running-a-script/136422/6 "2008-05-03T02:07:26Z")
I’ve been trying to use the Rufus-Scheduler, but no luck so far with it. I have this in one of my controllers: scheduler.schedule “\* #{params[:month\_time]} #{params[:month\_date]} \* \*” do `ruby script/push2exchange.rb run` end then the error I get is: Errno::ENOENT in AutosyncController#index No such file or directory - crontab -l I am running InstantRails 1.6 on Windows Server 2003. Is this error the result of it being on Windows? If so, how can I fix it? Any help is appreciated! Thanks, - Jeff M.