crud makes forms and processes form. It would be useless in cron. I am not even sure you need cron. I think you just need a backgrund process
web2py.py -S app -M -N -R script.py On Jun 21, 2:47 am, Narendran <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a need to write a cron job that will be doing a lot of db > inserts/updates. I am right now writing the code using DAL directly. > But, DAL is not as powerful (I'd like to get exceptions thrown > automatically if a constraint is violated etc. Right now, DAL returns > me native DB exceptions.) > Can I use crud in cron to do the same? On a shallow browse, it looks > like crud APIs will be doing a lot of exception handling (the sort of > what I am looking for.) Can someone please advise on this? > > -- > Thanks > Narendran

