Rails - Whenever gem - Dynamic values

Question

Lets say I have a cronjob like this:

every 1.day, :at => \'4:30 am\' do  
  runner \"MyModel.task_to_run_at_four_thirty_in_the_morning\"  
end  
         


        

Answer 1

Thank you idlefingers! It totally worked. Here's my solution:

require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/environment.rb"

@notification_daily = Constant.find_by_key("notification_daily_time_span")
every eval(@notification_daily.value), :at => @notification_daily.additional_data do
  runner "Notification.daily"
end

@notification_weekly = Constant.find_by_key("notification_weekly_time_span")
every eval(@notification_weekly.value), :at => @notification_weekly.additional_data do
  runner "Notification.weekly"
end

.value can contain for example: 1.day or :sunday
.additional_data contains the timestamp, example: 11:00am

And yes, I'm aware that I need to run --update crontab again :)
But I'll let a cronjob update itself, hehe.