If "periodically from the time of saving" is a must and you also need to refresh the data changes in real time, not, for example, retroactively, once per hour, then I suggest using the web2py's Scheduler. It's in the 4th chapter of the book. Otherwise a regular system's cron job would be enough.
Regards On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 1:34:56 AM UTC+2, sasogeek wrote: > > I want to do something but I doubt cron is the right thing to attempt, I'm > not even sure what I'm supposed to do except that it's going to be a > scheduled task and it may or may not be solved by cron, I need some > guidance. > > I want to simulate a bank. users get to 'save' some (virtual) money in the > 'bank', and every hour (in real time, periodically from the time of > 'saving') they earn some percentage of their saved money. > > for instance, every hour, > balance = db(db.bank.account_id == > auth.user.bank_account_id).select().first().balance > db(db.bank.account_id == > auth.user.bank_account_id).update(balance=balance+(0.0001*balance)) > or something like that. > > how do i do this? > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
