I have a Ruby on Rails 4.0 and PostgreSQL app hosted in an Ubuntu VPS. in this application I want to send email based on data in the database. for example a background job check a table content per hour and depend on content send email to user or not. I decided to do this work by Resque. how can I do that? should I do in Rails app or in an independent service? and how can I schedule this job?
There are couple of more options I advise you to try to
1. Cron : One of most preferred approach for any unix developer to run a task based upon some interval . here are read more about
FYI: if you facing problem with understanding cron settings there are gem available to do the same for you its called whenever
2. Resque-Scheduler : Surely you missed one of Resque plugins that provide exactly the same feature that you need its called resque-scheduler . It too provide cron like settings for you to work on
Please check the above link for more info
Hope this helps.