Ruby on Rails - Users Scheduling Tasks

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I am working on an application which people can sign up to and schedule tasks to be done.

When the user schedules a task they enter a date and time. I want the application to wake up and send an email to the user at the date and time they have entered.

I am unsure what gems/plugins to use in rails to achieve this, anyone have a suggestion?

Cheers

Eef

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 17 '10 at 23:02

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delayed_job should do the trick. It allows you to schedule tasks to run at a particular time. All you need to do is schedule a function that sends an email.

answered Nov 17 '10 at 23:02

Alex Korban

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this one was the closest to what I needed but I found resque afterwards which is good. Cheers – RailsSon Nov 26 '10 at 16:50

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 18 '10 at 18:08

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Run a cron job every minute that runs a rake task that checks the database for any un-run tasks in the past.

This way if your system goes down (hint: it will) when you bring it back up the cronjob will pick up the slack left behind.

answered Nov 18 '10 at 18:08

Ryan Bigg

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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There's also a backgroundrb. Also check this thread.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered Nov 17 '10 at 23:32

Roman

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 18 '10 at 18:00

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The Unix 'at' command is also useful. Just execute a shell that calls 'at'.

answered Nov 18 '10 at 18:00

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