Repeated Rake Task Using Delayed Job

Question

Hello,

I am currently using the delayed_job gem and I was wondering how to run a rake task every 5 minutes.

I want to run "rake ts:reindex RAILS_ENV=production" every 5 minutes but I'm not sure where to start. I really don't have much more I can say about this because I am VERY inexperienced in this area of rails development.

Answer 1

I would not suggest using thinking sphinx reindexing every 5 minutes. If you really want that put something like this into your /etc/crontab:

*/5 * * * * your_username cd /path/to/rails/root && rake ts:reindex RAILS_ENV=production

Answer 2

Thinking Sphinx (assuming you're using it due to the ts:reindex mention) has internal hooks to use delayed job for indexing. Have you taken a look at delayed delta indexing? You will probably end up using the crontab to actually run the periodic delta reindex as Eimantas mentioned.

Answer 3

Use the Whenever gem to schedule your reindexing rake task or any other rake task to run every 5 minutes.

Its makes it very easy to create Cron jobs like these