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] On something like AWS, you would have the ability to create normal cron jobs and, when dealing with a Ruby on Rails application, you coul...
