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.
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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.
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?