Brief question about basic implementation

[monroemann]

Hi @javan

We are a not for profit (and not so advanced) volunteer coding team at BreakDiving.io. We have a worldwide social media community designed to inspire our members to achieve their goals in life.

We have a message board on the homepage. We want to have the system automatically do a few things every Monday morning on that homepage:

• Post a new post on the message board that says, "Time for your weekly update!", posted from a specific user
• Share a random quotation from quotations we have added to the database
• Put a random 'tag of the week' above all of the posts that pulls from the Tag model

I have read through the readme, but am still a bit unclear how this would work. As an example, here is our Tag model:

class Tag < ApplicationRecord
  include PgSearch
    multisearchable :against => [:name]

  validates :name, uniqueness: true
  has_many :taggings, :dependent => :destroy
  has_many :posts, through: :taggings
  
  COLORS = ['#F7464A', '#46BFBD', '#FDB45C', '#949FB1', '#4D5360',
  '#FF5733', '#F4D03F', '#a569bd', '#22b256', '#68a1b9',
  '#d7b1e1', '#d15269', '#37b9bb', '#7ebb85', '#bc328c']
end

How could we randomly post a tag from this model each week?

Would it be similar for posting the weekly 'share your update' reminder?

Thank you so much for your help!

[monroemann]

I also am unclear the difference between these three commands, and when to use which: command, runner, and rake

[monroemann]

Would it be something like this:

every :monday, at: '8am' do # Use any day of the week or :weekend, :weekday
  runner "Tag.post_random_tag"
end

And then we would have to write a method in the tag model (or would it be in the controller?) that randomly grabs a tag and displays it on the view?

[monroemann]

I apologize for tagging you all, but we're not the most advanced coders, and are hoping one of you may be able to assist: @andrew @olleolleolle @dce @dinossaur23 @alexdean @dreamwords

Thank you!

[alexdean]

Run bundle exec whenever from a command line and look at the output that is generated. This builds a cron file but doesn't send it anywhere. That will show you the differences between command, runner, and rake.