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Hi, I''m trying to use RailsCron but keeping getting an error when I try to run it. I''m a beginner, so please use small words :) -bash-2.05b$ rake cron_start (in /home/jake/rails_sites/testsite) Syntax error: "&" unexpected The little bit I know about my environment: - RailsCron installed as a plug in (not gem, cause I''m on a shared host) - Debian Linux - rake cron_status returns nothing - in cron_start, the symbol &> is i...

Hi all, I''ve set up RailsCron to send email reminders on a daily basis. My dev environment is Rails trunk on Debian Sarge, lighttpd running as a regular user. I''m having two issues: 1) When I run "rake cron_start", I get rake aborted! undefined method `blank?'' for "":String The "blank?" method is provided by Rails, so I''m guessing its not available in Rake''s context for some reason. In looking for the cause, I used Rails1.0 (via gem) instead of the svn r...

...s * Hard to start/stop/affect the background processes from within Rails. RailsCron addresses these shortcomings by using one RoR instance with threading (Ruby, native to be added later). STARTING & STOPPING ================== RailsCron is started and stopped by Rake. List of Rake tasks: * cron_start -- Starts RailsCron as a daemon * cron_foreground -- Starts RailsCron in the foreground * cron_stop -- Graceful stop * cron_kill * cron_graceful -- Graceful restart * cron_status These commands are UNIX-oriented. Windows users can start with "ruby script\runner ''RailsCron.start'...

Hello, I need to put a script in place for updating a local database with a remote resource periodically. It should be started alongside the server (or inside it, whatever) and be run as long as the server running my rails app is up an running. Any thoughts on how to accomplish this? I have thought of editing the environment.rb file and placing the call to the script trigger there, but I wonder

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