Is Rails's “delayed_job” for cron task really?

Question

delayed_job is at http://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job

Can delayed_job have the ability to do cron task? Such as running a script every night at 1am. Or run a

Answer 1

Whenever works great.

I also like rufus-scheduler

/config/initializers/task_scheduler.rb

Then in that file:

scheduler = Rufus::Scheduler.start_new  

scheduler.every("1m") do  
   DailyDigest.send_digest!  
end 

I originally found this posted here

I've tried it and it works well.

update

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