Timer for executing events

Rails
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Hi Everyone,

I hope you guys can help me out. What is the best way to go about using
a timer to execute events? I would like to execute a block of code
every 24 hours (or at midnight - server time). Is this possible?

What I am trying to get at is that I would like to create a new page
every 24 hours and have that serve as my front page. Is it possible to
route to this ‘new page’? Any insights on this on any of this would be
great!

Thank you in advance for your help!!

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Jordan I. wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I hope you guys can help me out. What is the best way to go about using
a timer to execute events? I would like to execute a block of code
every 24 hours (or at midnight - server time). Is this possible?

What I am trying to get at is that I would like to create a new page
every 24 hours and have that serve as my front page. Is it possible to
route to this ‘new page’? Any insights on this on any of this would be
great!

Thank you in advance for your help!!

Hi Jordan,

See if this helps :slight_smile:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToRunBackgroundJobsInRails

Victor

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Hi Victor,

Thanks for the link. Would you happen to know if this would work on my
local webrick running windows? or do i need to deploy on a linux server?

Thanks for your help.

Jordan

Victor F. wrote:

Jordan I. wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I hope you guys can help me out. What is the best way to go about using
a timer to execute events? I would like to execute a block of code
every 24 hours (or at midnight - server time). Is this possible?

What I am trying to get at is that I would like to create a new page
every 24 hours and have that serve as my front page. Is it possible to
route to this ‘new page’? Any insights on this on any of this would be
great!

Thank you in advance for your help!!

Hi Jordan,

See if this helps :slight_smile:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToRunBackgroundJobsInRails

Victor

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Jordan I. wrote:

Hi Victor,

Thanks for the link. Would you happen to know if this would work on my
local webrick running windows? or do i need to deploy on a linux server?

Thanks for your help.

Jordan

The .script/runner -e production “Model.do_something” solution should
work with any scheduler, I presume you can create a new task with the
Windows XP scheduler and have .script/runner executed when needed

BTW, .script/runner have nothing to do with webrick or any kind of http
server - It is use to run Rails tasks outside the http server.