Re: [Rails] Re: easy scheduling without cron

On 18 March 2011 01:22, Matt Jones <al2o3cr@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 17, 7:00 pm, Alexander Farley <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>> Hi, my server doesn't allow shell access or scripts. What's the easiest
>> way to schedule a script, from within ruby/rails?
>
> Get a new host that doesn't suck. Seriously, VPS hosting is crazy
> cheap nowadays and doesn't have bizarro restrictions like "no shell
> access".

+1

But if you're stuck where you are, you can use a "webcron" service to
periodically make a request to an action on your server, which then
fires off the process. So have a controller call "WebCron" with
actions like "calculate_stats" and call
http://your.url/web_cron/calculate_stats

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