# What is the better way for Scheduling?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-better-way-for-scheduling/151216>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 18, 2008, 10:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-better-way-for-scheduling/151216 "2008-10-18T10:49:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![karthikeyan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@karthikeyan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karthikeyan)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 10:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-better-way-for-scheduling/151216/1 "2008-10-18T10:49:31Z")

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Hi,

In my application, I need to send an email to some persons once in every  
week.  
I want to make it as a background job. So which way/plugin will be  
better for this?

Thanks in advance…

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**Author:** ![karthikeyan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@karthikeyan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karthikeyan)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-better-way-for-scheduling/151216/2 "2008-10-18T11:25:29Z")

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I used to just use a script and cron for this type of thing, but  
recently I’ve been looking at using a this as a better solution

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All the best

RobL