# Time manager

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-manager/82958>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 22, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-manager/82958 "2007-01-22T18:40:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![alabama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@alabama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alabama)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-manager/82958/1 "2007-01-22T18:40:13Z")

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Hi,all !

I would like to control my application by time, without requests.  
How can I do this ?  
Is any method for this purpose ?  
For exemple : every hour I would like to do something on my data base  
in automatic way.  
And of course my whole application shouldn’t sleep in the meanwhile.  
Have anybody some idea ?

Thank for help !

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**Author:** ![alabama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@alabama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alabama)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-manager/82958/2 "2007-01-22T18:45:21Z")

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One way (that I use quite often) is just to use a cronjob. Backgroundrb  
also has cron like scheduling of jobs (in addition to the other great  
stuff it does).

Fred

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**Author:** ![alabama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@alabama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alabama)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-manager/82958/3 "2007-01-22T19:00:16Z")

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Frederick C. wrote:

> One way (that I use quite often) is just to use a cronjob. Backgroundrb  
> also has cron like scheduling of jobs (in addition to the other great  
> stuff it does).
> 
> Fred

Thank for your answer !

Could you tell me something more.

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**Author:** ![alabama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@alabama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alabama)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-manager/82958/4 "2007-01-23T00:00:09Z")

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[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cron+job](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cron+job)

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