Suppose, for a moment, that I have a Camping app. It looks at something, like an RSS feed of upcoming events, and displays them if they meet a specified criterion. I look at the index page, it fetches the feed items and then displays them. Yay. Maybe it also writes them to a database.
Which is great, so long as I keep looking at the page every so often. But what do I do while I'm sleeping? or on holiday? Who will look at the page to fetch the feeds then? So, is there some way I can make Camping perform the fetch operation regularly, all internal to Camping? I know I could set up a cron job to grab the page via curl every hour or whatever, but can I do it just in Camping? Any pointers gratefully recieved, Jonathan _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
