Yesterday I posted that you can use script/console. Which is true, but you cant run that in a cronjob. Or, at least I couldnt get it to run in a cronjob.

So I learned about script/runner. I used it like this… I put a .rb script in lib/task called ferret_index.rb.

class FerretIndex < ActiveRecord::Base
MyModel.rebuild_index
end

Then my cronjob

0 1 * * 7 /usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/<my project>/script/runner /usr/local/apache2/<my project>/lib/task/ferret_index.rb

Every sunday at 1:00 am my index will be updated.

Lesson learned. As the databse was being updated more often and becoming very large, indexing became more difficult to do just by doing a search in the browser. Back to the documentation and there it was.

script/console

>>MyModel.rebuild_index

Plus, the indexing seems to be much faster. Looking into  running the DRb server. Im worried about taking a performance hit. I’ll post what I learn when I try it out