I’m yet another person looking to do some background Rails processing.
From post & the wiki, it looks like I should be using RailsCron. So I’m
about to start playing.
In parallel, I’d like to get some opinions re: database access. I have
a table that I’d like to re-fresh periodically in the background. Is it
safe, using RailsCron, to be accessing a table that my View code will be
accessing as well? Since RailsCron ads functionality to an
ActiveRecord, I’m tempted to just enable a method I’ve written to
populate the table to be called via RailsCron.
I’m new to web apps, so I apologize for the noobish tint to the
question. I expect that MySQL would be keeping the commands atomic and
that I should be OK. Does Rails handle this kind of semaphore-type
action? Or am I thinking at the wrong level(s)?
thx,
–dwf