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

I run multiple cron delayed_jobs for nightly statistic and report generating and also for data scrapping at certain intervals. Here's how I do it:

https://aaronvb.com/articles/recurring-delayed-job-with-cron.html