I think you got it all wrong. Cron and Delayed Job are two completely different and unrelated things; they don't have to work together. Maybe you should take a look at the examples in the wiki as they're pretty accurate both at showing you how to use and configure each and at helping you chose which one is more appropriate in your case.
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:34 PM, chris <[email protected]> wrote: > Cron and delayed_job are entirely separate things. > > You use cron if you want to run things daily (or hourly). Say you want to > send a daily report to all your users, you would use the code your posted > above. > > You use delayed_job if you want to run something in the background (email > sending, heavy processing, etc) after something happens. Say, someone buys > something from your site and you want to send them a receipt. You would do > this via delayed_job, doing something like > UserMailer.send_later(:notification_mail, user) > > Hope that helps! > > -- > 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.
