Also take a look at http://github.com/ddollar/repeated_job

- David

On May 17, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Steve Wilhelm wrote:

> Take a look at Background Jobs / Workers at 
> http://docs.heroku.com/background-jobs
> 
> - Steve W.
> 
> On May 17, 7:36 am, Jim Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm new to Heroku and am trying to figure how I would accomplish the
>> following?
>> 
>> I've got an Events table that stores the date an event is to occur.
>> I'd like to automatically send out an email to a user when that event
>> is close (ie. 1 day away, 1 hour away, 15 minutes, etc).
>> 
>> How would I do this with Heroku?  I was thinking I could have a cron
>> job run every minute, that searches for events that are coming up, but
>> it looks like I can only use hourly cron jobs, which would miss my 15
>> minute requirement.
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
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