Comments on: Heroku Tips for the Cheap

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:01:38 +0000

Heroku now has a free cron-like addon called scheduler. It will run jobs daily, hourly or every 10 minutes. 10 minutes is granular enough for my needs. http://addons.heroku.com/scheduler

By: will

will — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:03:47 +0000

The preferred way to run something more often than the cron addon allows, is to use Procfile run a clock process using a gem like Clockwork. See http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/process-model

I realize though that it wouldn't fall under "for the cheap" since you'd need to run a second dyno to do so. But you should try that route out and see if you like it.

By: medwezys

medwezys — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:15:01 +0000

BTW, I only needed to add one line to production.rb to make gmail SMTP work under heroku

require 'smtp_tls'

maybe that helps someone

By: Jerry Cheung

Jerry Cheung — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:31:15 +0000

I liked your "poor man's cron" idea and I'm definitely planning on doing to the periodically have my app pull down emails from Gmail for processing since I can't do "ActionMailer#receive" like I would normally