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Cron in Ruby

#164 Cron in Ruby

Jun 01, 2009 | 8 minutes | Tools, Plugins, Deployment, Background Jobs
Cron is great for handling recurring tasks, but it is an external dependency with a crazy syntax. In this episode I show you how to use Whenever to create cron jobs with Ruby.
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