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

You can also just install a gem like rufus-scheduler if you're running a rails app and setup scheduling that way. I don't know if this is bad practice for some reason, but it's what I do with my app, and it seems to work fine.