Ruby on Rails

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Ben Edwards <login@funkytwig.com> wrote:

> I have writtern a set of ruby scripts that are used to poulate a database
> that I am going to use rails as a front end for users. Curently they are
> stand alone, having there own lib directory and a few classes. These
> scripts are run every night using cron/bash.
>
> I am planing on changing the database to conform to ActiveRecord so rails
> can easily access it but I am wondering if ti is worth moving the scripts
> within rails rather than having them stand alone. If doing this is a good
> idea I dont really know where to start. The key thing is I need to be able
> to scedurle tham to run every night.

Personally I'd recommend having them take advantage of running
in the actual Rails environment, and luckily there's an easy way to
do exactly that:

`rails runner --help`

should get you started.

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