Oh, you must be on Ruby 1.8.7, then? You'll have Time#thursday? (and
the other days of the week) on 1.9, or if you're using Rails.
Sorry for the confusion. Jeff's suggestion is best, but when you
upgrade to 1.9 I'd suggest using Time#thursday?, since it's so much
more readable.
On Mar 31, 10:14 am, Doug Naegele <dougnaeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Chris.
>
> Sorry, it didn't work.
>
> Here's my code:
>
> if Time.now.thursday?
> puts "Send report"
> uri = URI.parse('http://myapp.heroku.com/messages/send_report')
> Net::HTTP.get(uri)
> puts " Report put is done."
> end
>
> Here's the error output (after I ran heroku rake cron --trace)
>
> ** Invoke cron (first_time)
> ** Invoke environment (first_time)
> ** Execute environment
> ** Execute cron
> rake aborted!
> undefined method `thursday?' for Thu Mar 31 10:06:51 -0700 2011:Time
> /app/lib/tasks/cron.rake:28
>
> (if Time.now.thursday? is line 28)
>
> -----
>
> the following also throws an error:
>
> if Time.now == thursday
> .
> .
> .
> .
>
> (output below)
> rake aborted!
> undefined local variable or method `thursday' for main:Object
>
> ----
>
> this also throws an error:
>
> if Time.now.day == thursday
> .
> .
> .
> .
> (output below)
> rake aborted!
> undefined local variable or method `thursday' for main:Object
>
> On Mar 31, 12:32 pm, Chris Hanks <christopher.m.ha...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Try: Time.now.monday?
>
> > On Mar 31, 8:16 am, Doug Naegele <dougnaeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Can someone help me configure Heroku Cron to only run on a certain
> > > day?
>
> > > So, imagine I send an email report every Monday morning. How do I
> > > write the syntax for that?
>
> > > Something like this:
>
> > > This one works:
>
> > > if Time.now.hour == 7 ##Sends report @7am, PST.
> > > puts "Send report"
> > > uri = URI.parse('http://myapp.heroku.com/messages/send_report')
> > > Net::HTTP.get(uri)
> > > puts " Report is done."
> > > end
>
> > > This one does not work:
>
> > > if Time.now == Monday ##Sends report at the daily Heroku cron run,
> > > but only on Monday.
> > > puts "Send report"
> > > uri = URI.parse('http://myapp.heroku.com/messages/send_report')
> > > Net::HTTP.get(uri)
> > > puts " Report is done."
> > > end
>
> > > thanks in advance
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