Rails: Scheduled task to warm up the cache?

Question

I am using the following to cache a slow loading page using memcached:

caches_action :complex_report, :expires_in => 1.day

The controller ac

Answer 1

Probably the most basic solution would be to set up a simple cron entry to load up the page you'll want to have a 'hot' cache. This can be as easy adding the following to the crontab of a user on your server using crontab -e to open an editor:

*/15 * * * * wget -q http://yourwebpages.url/ > /dev/null 2>&1

What this will do is use wget to fetch the data at the provided url every 15 minutes of every hour, day, month and year, ignore the results and not send *nix mail in case something goes wrong.