This might be frowned upon, but you can expose an api and call it every minute from a cron running on a machine external to heroku.
Stew On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Jim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm new to Heroku and am trying to figure how I would accomplish the > following? > > I've got an Events table that stores the date an event is to occur. > I'd like to automatically send out an email to a user when that event > is close (ie. 1 day away, 1 hour away, 15 minutes, etc). > > How would I do this with Heroku? I was thinking I could have a cron > job run every minute, that searches for events that are coming up, but > it looks like I can only use hourly cron jobs, which would miss my 15 > minute requirement. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<heroku%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
