RailsCron: 'every' in background

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Got another question. It’s unclear to me what “every” means in the
background
function and how it relates to the RailsCron.create “every”:

From README:

RailsCron.create(
  :command => "Object.do_something()",
  :start => 2.minutes.from_now,
  :every => 12.hours,               # default: 1.day
  :finish => 2.years.from_now       # optional
)

class EmailQueue < ActiveRecord::Base
  background :deliver, :every => 1.minute, :concurrent => true

  def self.deliver
    #process the queue
  end
end

It seems to me that the create method creates a job that runs every 12
hours.
If the command were “EmailQueue.deliver”, I’d assume that the “deliver”
method
would run every 12 hours.

Then it confuses me that there’s another every in the EmailQueue
background
call. What exactly does background do? And how does this “every”
interact with
RailsCron “every”?

Thanks,
Jake

2

On 2/22/06, Jake [email protected] wrote:

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If the command were “EmailQueue.deliver”, I’d assume that the “deliver” method
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Those code samples are different ways of doing the same thing. A or
B, not A and B. This difference is that background manages itself
through RailsCron.create_singleton, so that it autodetects changes to
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