Running Cron Tasks on Heroku

Question

I\'ve seen that Heroku charges $15/mo to run Delayed Job, and $3/mo to run cron tasks daily. Is it possible to skip that entirely and run my own cron tasks manually? Or ar

Answer 1

Yes, I've successfully used a cron job on my local server which essentially runs

$ heroku rake 

at whatever intervals I've required. I've used in on both aspen and bamboo stacks.