What is Pokerize

Pokerize is a simple demo of Scheduling Background Jobs in a Rails App.

GEM Dependencies

Pokerize depends on the whenever gem.

you can install it by running "sudo gem install whenever" without the quotes

System Dependencies

Whenever GEM depends on crontab utility, which is available on all Linux, Unix and Mac OS platforms.

How to Run the demo

Go to your application root folder

cd /path/to/pokerize_folder

make sure you have installed whenever gem and run this command "whenever --update-crontab poke"

Launch your rails app.

Customizing Schedules

Whenever gem places a schedule.rb file in the config folder of the Rails app.

config/schedule.rb

Edit it as you may and there is more tutorials on customizing it here http://github.com/javan/whenever