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copied!<p>I would really recommend looking at another way to implement this. Unless you really need 1 extra thread <em>per instance</em> when you go to production (imagine setting up 3-4 thin / mongrel / etc. servers - each will have the extra thread), there's better ways to go about it.</p> <p>Option 1 - the simplest - is just to create a controller action that will execute your task, and then use wget and cron to trigger that action regularly.</p> <pre><code>20 * * * * /usr/bin/wget --quiet -O - 'http://www.mydomain.com/my_controller/my_action' </code></pre> <p>The problem here is that you've got to deal with authentication / access control - unless you really don't care if some random user can trigger your job (which, frankly, is sometimes the case for very simple jobs).</p> <p>Option 2 - use <a href="https://github.com/tomykaira/clockwork" rel="nofollow">Clockwork</a>/<a href="http://mperham.github.com/sidekiq/" rel="nofollow">Sidekiq</a> or BackgroundRb or some other way of running tasks in the background. I've done this in a production app, and it works very nicely. I chose Clockwork and Sidekiq, and my scheduled tasks look something like this:</p> <p>app/workers/daily_worker.rb:</p> <pre><code>class DailyWorker include Sidekiq::Worker def perform # do stuff here end end </code></pre> <p>clockwork.rb:</p> <pre><code>require 'clockwork' require 'sidekiq' Dir["app/workers/*"].each {|f| load f } module Clockwork every 1.day, 'daily.jobs', :at => "00:30" do DailyWorker.perform_async end end </code></pre> <p>This to me seemed like the <em>best</em> solution - and it only took me about 15 minutes to get it all up and running.</p>

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