Thank you guys! I'm using cron tasks like djangst sugested and it's working well. And yes, I agree with Donald: plugins have this update problem... So I'll try the Donald's way as well. Big hug, Douglas Fonseca
On 13 jan, 18:08, "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Donald R. Ziesig wrote: > > > >I restrict the ip to 0.0.0.0 (localhost) so no one outside the > > >server can use the route. If someone is able to hack into the > > >server itself, all bets are off. :-( . So far I haven't had any > > >problems, and the site has been up for 3.5 years so far. > > > >local_request? would work too. > > > I need to do something similar -- keep all but cron requests from > > the same server from tripping a particular method in my controller. > > Can you elaborate on how local_request? could be used for that > > purpose? I looked at the documentation, and it appears to be a test > > you can run on an exception, but I'm not clear how to employ it -- > > what would I use to raise the exception in the first place? > > > Is it as simple as this? > > > def my_api_method > > send_out_a_bunch_of_mail if local_request? > > end > > > My gut tells me no, there's an object missing here. > > The object is an ActiveController instance, i.e. an HTTP request handler. The > method checks the IP address of the requester. > > Jeffrey -- 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.
