From: Phlip Date: 2009-01-14T00:24:32+09:00 Subject: Re: Rube newb: What is the term for this? Ruby Rabbit wrote: >> Let's say a have a blog. Can Ruby do some operations to the database >> let's say once a day... > What you want is a job/cron job, background process, daemon .. RR forgot the disclaimer: Ruby is a language, and this is very probably a question about Ruby on Rails, which is a platform. Further questions about Rails will get the best answer on its Google Group...