# Rails Tasks

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-tasks/135956>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 27, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-tasks/135956 "2008-04-27T00:06:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jables](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@Jables](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jables)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-tasks/135956/1 "2008-04-27T00:06:04Z")

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Hey,  
So I have a piece of code written (currently in a controller) to  
update a table of values that I want to run every 20 minutes. It  
parses an rss feed and caches the data to the database. Anyone have  
suggestions on how best to accomplish this?

Thanks,  
JB

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**Author:** ![Jables](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@Jables](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jables)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-tasks/135956/2 "2008-04-27T00:30:41Z")

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On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 15:03 -0700, Jables wrote:

> Hey,  
> So I have a piece of code written (currently in a controller) to  
> update a table of values that I want to run every 20 minutes. It  
> parses an rss feed and caches the data to the database. Anyone have  
> suggestions on how best to accomplish this?

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backgroundrb plugin

Craig

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**Author:** ![Jables](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@Jables](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jables)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-tasks/135956/3 "2008-04-27T01:37:38Z")

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I concur: [http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/](http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/)