> 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?
If a feed gets updated in the woods, but there's nobody there to read it, is there any new content? ;-) But I understand what you're saying: you want to fetch the feeds so you don't miss any items that fall off the bottom of the feed and/or the performance hit of fetching the feed each time is irritating. > > 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? Two proposed solutions: 1. Threads: create a thread that just sleeps for an hour, then wakes up and fetches the feed. You can do this in your camping app. I'm not a threading expert, so I'll leave it to you to fill in the details. 2. External cron job: Every hour run something like `curl http://myapp.com/fetchfeeds > /dev/null` 2 is probably the quick and dirty fix. 1 is certainly more clever. Good luck -Mark _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
