Ruby checking rss feed every X minutes

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I have a simple app that fetches an RSS feed and downloads some data. How can I get my ruby app to check the RSS feed every X minutes? should I just wrap all the code in a loop with a sleep?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 18 '11 at 08:09

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If you like the old unix stuff, you should use cron. A nice Ruby alternative is clockwork (which is way easier to configure).

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 18 '11 at 08:10

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You can use Cron if you work with Linux or Task Scheduler in case of Windows.

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Also there's "whenever" gem, nice Ruby DSL for setting cron tasks: https://github.com/javan/whenever – Lukas Stejskal May 18 '11 at 08:19

Ruby checking rss feed every X minutes

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