On Nov 10, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Terri I. wrote: > Well, the root or administrator user don't have X509 certificates that > can be read in. Is there a different way to run code automatically > without requiring user credentials, that can only be called by the > server (such that a user couldn't hack in by entering the > controller/method in the URL)? > There's got to be a way of running server-type tasks that you don't want > users being able to launch. I'm sure I'm missing something simple > here...
Bypass the web server was I'm sure what was meant by cron; just run a script, which might or might not be written in Ruby, and might or might not use ActiveRecord to communicate with the db. -- Scott Ribe [email protected] http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- 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.
