cron that will run a ruby script every day at midnight

Question

I heard crontab would be a good choice but how do i write this line and where do i put it on the server

Answer 1

Here's a good tutorial on what crontab is and how to use it on Ubuntu. Your crontab line will look something like this:

00 00 * * * ruby path/to/your/script.rb

(00 00 indicates midnight--0 minutes and 0 seconds--and the *s mean every day of every month.)