Ruby on Rails

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com> wrote:
> - I need to create a daemon process that runs periodically in the background on a server and creates some export files from a database.

A "daemon" process runs continuously; are you sure you don't just
want to use cron? It's made for "periodically" :-)

> - I'd like to write it in Ruby and use ActiveRecord & ERB.

If cron is an option, you could either write a standalone script, a rake
task or use a full Rails installation and `rails runner`.

FWIW,
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