Scheduling Cron Jobs on Heroku with Ruby on Rails (opens in new tab)

From Mitchell Hanberg's Blog: A common practice is to create a __cron job__ whenever you have a task you need done periodically. >The software utility Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. People who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule jobs (commands or shell scripts) to run periodically at fixed times, dates, or intervals. [[1]](#1) On something like AWS, you would have the ability to create normal cron jobs and, when dealing w...