Hello people, I am trying to create a application where a person can
set a reminder. for example a person may choose a date on which he
wants the email to be sent to his email id, on submitting this data a
cron job should start which would run daily and would deliver the
email on the particular day at particular time. How can i achieve
this? any help would be appreciated…
Thanks in advance.
Thanks for the suggestion fredrick…Can you please tell me is it
possible to do this using unix cronjob?? or do i need to use only a
plugin backgroundrb or rubycron and lots of others??I wanted to do
something like a file which is a .rb file inside crontab directory and
then daemon would be created which would run this script… Somethig
like this…I am not very sure how you can do this but do u have any
idea of doing it like this??
On Mar 17, 1:57 pm, Frederick C. [email protected]
On Mar 17, 8:43 am, dhaval [email protected] wrote:
Hello people, I am trying to create a application where a person can
set a reminder. for example a person may choose a date on which he
wants the email to be sent to his email id, on submitting this data a
cron job should start which would run daily and would deliver the
email on the particular day at particular time. How can i achieve
this? any help would be appreciated…
Thanks in advance.
Well it’s going to need to run a hell of a lot more often than daily.
You’re going to want some sort of background process (cronjob,
backgroundrb, long running ruby script, etc…). Then you’ll probably
have a table with what needs to be sent and when. Whenever your
background process wakes up you just check whether anything needs
sending now.
Fred
On 17 Mar 2008, at 09:23, dhaval wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion fredrick…Can you please tell me is it
possible to do this using unix cronjob?? or do i need to use only a
plugin backgroundrb or rubycron and lots of others??I wanted to do
something like a file which is a .rb file inside crontab directory and
then daemon would be created which would run this script… Somethig
like this…I am not very sure how you can do this but do u have any
idea of doing it like this??
Well cron will quite happily run ruby scripts if that’s what you’re
asking
Fred