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I have a Person model with a points attribute. For the most part, points values will be incremented and decremented via user votes. However, I''d also like to decrement a Person''s points by half a point each day. How do I automatically decrement the value once per day? Your help is greatly appreciated :) Becky -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this

Hello, I am fairly new to Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I am creating an application that "has many :groups", each with their own schedule of events. This is a little different than a calendar of events, since these events recur every week and do not have a specific date. So for example, I need to display a schedule for one group that looks like this: Group A''s Activities - Monday

Hi there, do you agree that for having scheduled tasks in Rails, the leanest solution is the following? - Create a controller with an action for each task - Implement the logic of the task as controller code - Set up a cron job at the OS level that uses wget to invoke the URL of this controller/action at the appropriate time intervals Advantages: 1) full access to all your Rails objects just as