On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Vincent P <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have an administrative task that I need to run once a day: I need > to iterate through each user in the User table in the database, do > some calculation involving some other models, and update each user > record in the database. > > I am thinking about just doing it at the console (env=production). > But I don't want to type all the statements again each time I carry > out this task. Is there a way to put this in a script and just run > the script? > > Eventually, I'd like to schedule the task to run automatically every > day, and have some sort of progress display when the task is run. > > Thanks, > > Vincent. > > Vincent, you might want to consider the whenver gem and you can view Ryan's screencast here: http://media.railscasts.com/videos/164_cron_in_ruby.mov Good luck, -Conrad > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
