How can I schedule a 'weekly' job on Heroku?

Question

I have a Rails app deployed on Heroku with the Heroku scheduler add-on successfully working for daily jobs.

Now I want a weekly job, but the schedul

Answer 1

As discussed over here, and using the above logic from Rob, here are the bash scripts broken down by a day of the week, once a month, and on a specific date.

Run a task every Monday:

if [ "$(date +%u)" = 1 ]; then MY_COMMAND; fi

Run a task every 1st day in a month:

if [ "$(date +%d)" = 01 ]; then MY_COMMAND; fi

You could also run a job every year on December 24th:

if [ "$(date +%m)" = 12 ] && [ "$(date +%d)" = 24 ]; then MY_COMMAND; fi