# How to automatically Create a new page each day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 19, 2009, 9:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-automatically-create-a-new-page-each-day/168295 "2009-05-19T09:18:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sayeo87](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@sayeo87](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sayeo87)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 9:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-automatically-create-a-new-page-each-day/168295/1 "2009-05-19T09:18:02Z")
Hi, I’m completely new to Ruby and RoR and yet I have an assignment due in less than a week =( One part of the assignment states that my RoR app will have to create a new page each day. I’m wondering what is the best way to get this done? Should there be a continuous process running on the server to detect the start of a new day to create a page for that day or should it be more request-driven? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks! – View this message in context: [http://www.nabble.com/How-to-automatically-Create-a-new-page-each-day--tp23609364p23609364.html](http://www.nabble.com/How-to-automatically-Create-a-new-page-each-day--tp23609364p23609364.html) Sent from the RubyOnRails Users mailing list archive at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). ---
**Author:** ![sayeo87](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@sayeo87](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sayeo87)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 9:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-automatically-create-a-new-page-each-day/168295/2 "2009-05-19T09:25:08Z")
On May 19, 4:54 am, sayeo87 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi, > > I’m completely new to Ruby and RoR and yet I have an assignment due in less > than a week =( One part of the assignment states that my RoR app will have > to create a new page each day. I’m wondering what is the best way to get > this done? Should there be a continuous process running on the server to > detect the start of a new day to create a page for that day or should it be > more request-driven? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks! I’d probably just have a cronjob that ran once a day. Fred ---
**Author:** ![sayeo87](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@sayeo87](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sayeo87)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 9:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-automatically-create-a-new-page-each-day/168295/3 "2009-05-19T09:29:53Z")
What do you mean by ‘create a new page for each day’? Colin 2009/5/19 Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![sayeo87](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@sayeo87](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sayeo87)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-automatically-create-a-new-page-each-day/168295/4 "2009-05-19T17:50:02Z")
My idea is 1. put one shell script file to create the page which will run every day at 12:01 am. 2. name the file as today’s date. 3. display the file named as todays date. Simple!!! ---
**Author:** ![sayeo87](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@sayeo87](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sayeo87)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-automatically-create-a-new-page-each-day/168295/5 "2009-05-19T17:53:09Z")
Colin L. wrote: > What do you mean by ‘create a new page for each day’? > Colin This is the $64,000 question. If “create a new page each day” just means “respond to URLs with a date in them” or “display today’s content”, then there is no need for a cron job and the date can just be processed like any other parameter. ## Best, Marnen Laibow-Koser [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![sayeo87](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@sayeo87](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sayeo87)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-automatically-create-a-new-page-each-day/168295/6 "2009-05-20T17:33:44Z")
Beware of bad SEO practices… Cheers, Sazima On May 19, 12:53 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser \