Railway•2y ago

Cron jobs with Django

What is the way to setup cron jobs with django on railway? I tried the usual way of dockerizing my app but docker compose isnt supported on railway. What other options do I have? (Newbie here, came from using heroku scheduler)

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Percy•2y ago

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NahascoOP•2y ago

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jackson•2y ago

would recommend APScheduler, you can use cron expressions if you would like you can just add it as a dependency alongside django, in my repo i have a config.py file that lays out the configuration for gunicorn and also has some cron jobs in it

# imports n stuff

# gunicorn config here

def on_starting(server):
    scheduler = BackgroundScheduler()
    scheduler.add_job(function_name_without_parentheses_here, 'cron', hour=16, minute=0, second=0, timezone='America/Los_Angeles')
    scheduler.start()

# imports n stuff

# gunicorn config here

def on_starting(server):
    scheduler = BackgroundScheduler()
    scheduler.add_job(function_name_without_parentheses_here, 'cron', hour=16, minute=0, second=0, timezone='America/Los_Angeles')
    scheduler.start()

NahascoOP•2y ago

thanks for the reply can i set management commands as the cron job function?

jackson•2y ago

hmmmmmmmm that might get tricky if you're talking about python manage.py commands you could try just calling them via the shell with os.sys but beware of conflicts with the db and stuff if it's in use by the application at the time

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