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6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2009-02-26 · latest 2020-01-16

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  1. …do it on a schedule, e.g. once per hour, or once every day. In the post the whenever gem ( https://github.com/javan/whenever ) is used, but you could use anything that is able to run things periodically. If you'd want to stay solely within…
    comment by lfittl · 2020-01-16 · in Effectively Using Materialized Views in Ruby on Rails
  2. If you're using Ruby, whenever is a better solution. https://github.com/javan/whenever Wraps cron so you don't have to. Integrates with Capistrano.
    comment by vinceguidry · 2015-01-04 · in Jobber: A replacement for cron, with status-reporting and error-handling
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    Ask HN: How can I learn to deploy Rails apps?
    story by timrogers · 2013-12-28 · 2 comments
  4. I developed Whenever ( http://github.com/javan/whenever ) to at least make the Cron syntax more reasonable.
    comment by javan · 2010-05-25 · in Rethinking Cron
  5. …a little hacking. After a little digging, it looks like it has an implicit Rails dependency ( http://github.com/javan/whenever/blob/f036675e94cd9dd9b21d2c... )
    comment by teej · 2009-02-26 · in Rails deployment missing piece, filled in
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    Rails deployment missing piece, filled in
    story by koops · 2009-02-26 · 27 comments