How to store cron job results in RoR

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I need to store data from a cron job in Ruby on Rails so that my controllers can still access it. I'm not too sure what the best way is to do this. By the way I'm a Ruby on Rails newb, so perhaps what I'm asking is extremely simple.

That was the first idea that I had, was assuming that there is a more efficient process though. — Ash Blue, Nov 30 '12 at 01:33

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

Check this out http://railscasts.com/episodes/164-cron-in-ruby (there is a revised version, but you have to pay $9 aprox. per month for pro videos).

You can make a task or a runner so you can access to ActiveRecord and store the data into some model.

For runners in Rails: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#rails-runner For tasks: http://erik.debill.org/2011/12/04/rake-for-rails-developers

Also, if you use tasks (which I recommend) watch this entry: Do rails rake tasks provide access to ActiveRecord models?

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 30 '12 at 04:13

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One way to store the results of you cron job is the create a controller with basic authentication if you care about the security of your results.

See the API.

So after you save your results from you cron say to /tmp/myresults, you can post via

curl -d @/tmp/myresults  http:/myrailsapplcaition.com:3000:/path_tomypost_method

edited Nov 30 '12 at 04:13

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