Ruby on Rails run task once a day

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I am trying to execute a method in ruby (2.2) on rails (4.2) once a day, and am running windows 10 but will be uploading to Elastic Beanstalk in a Linux environment and as such can't use an OS specific scheduler like cron. This rules out wheneverizer and the few other ways I can think of to go about doing this. Is there any non-platform specific ways I can do this?

Just Google it you will find lots of tools available https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/scheduling — gdlmx, Jun 07 '16 at 18:39

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 07 '16 at 18:33

You can use ruby based scheduler clockwork which is (potentially) cross-platform.

Clockwork is a cron replacement. It runs as a lightweight, long-running Ruby process which sits alongside your web processes (Mongrel/Thin) and your worker processes (DJ/Resque/Minion/Stalker) to schedule recurring work at particular times or dates. For example, refreshing feeds on an hourly basis, or send reminder emails on a nightly basis, or generating invoices once a month on the 1st.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 07 '16 at 18:34

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If your task is to be performed in the background you could use sidekiq and sidetiq to perform your task

answered Jun 07 '16 at 18:34

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