Re: [Rails] Running rake task automatically with rights of server?

On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Terri I. wrote:

> I have a task that I would like to have run automatically throughout the
> day without user intervention (guessing I would use a cron job to run a
> rake task). It will be reading in an RSS feed and using that data to
> update a database. The application is secure, using https and requiring
> user certs. So how do you go about having an automated task run with
> basically the rights of the server, as opposed to passing in user
> credentials?
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cron tasks run as the user

su - root
crontab -e

su - administrator
crontab -e

2 different crontabs executed as each user

Craig

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