Can someone give me direction how to setup a cron job on EngineYard that checks the database every x minutes and performs a task on them?
Most basically, I’m not sure how to have the script access the database.
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Can someone give me direction how to setup a cron job on EngineYard that checks the database every x minutes and performs a task on them?
Most basically, I’m not sure how to have the script access the database.
One way to do this would be to first create a rake task for your application. With a rake task you automatically have access to your environment database and code structure.
Then you can schedule the task as a cron job in the Engine Yard Admin page. You find it in Dashboard > More Options > Crontabs
The command to execute a rake task is like this: