Thank you! This is exactly what I need. On Jan 26, 6:18 pm, Conrad Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:07 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > The Ruby way would be to do the following: > > every :day , :at => "6:00 pm" do > runner "User.all.each { |user| <do_some_work> }" > end > > Good luck, > > -Conrad > > > > > 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. > > > -- > > 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%2Bunsubscrib > > [email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
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