You want to write a rake task that runs as a cron task every day.
lib/tasks/my_task.rake
task :touch_every_user => :environment do
User.find_each {|user| user.touch }
# perform some other heavy calculation and save it back to the user
end
For the cron task:
go to server, type "crontab -e"
15 0* * * /path/to/rails/root rake touch_every_user
RAILS_ENV=production
On Jan 26, 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.
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