# Scheduled events and notfications in a Rails application

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-events-and-notfications-in-a-rails-application/87995>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 7, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-events-and-notfications-in-a-rails-application/87995 "2007-03-07T11:58:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-events-and-notfications-in-a-rails-application/87995/1 "2007-03-07T11:58:00Z")

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Hi everyone…

OK, I’ve had a look around and I couldn’t find a good answer to this  
so here goes…

I am creating an application that needs to fire off actions based on  
arbitrary time and date rather than HTTP requests.

I’ve had a look at BackgroundRb but i’m not having much success in  
getting it working in the production environment (it seems to fire off  
workers more than once). Besides that, the documentation says it’s not  
ready for deployment in the real world…

I’ve also looked at Cron - and although that seems to be OK, I really  
need to be able to fire off notifications right down to a 10 second  
window and I’m not confident that my Rails app won’t fall over if I  
set up a cron job to run every 10 seconds.

Is there something in the Rails world that provides this  
functionality?

Any help appreciated…

Andrew