scheduled_tasks.md

Scheduled tasks

You need to configure scheduled tasks in order to properly run your marketplace in production.

Scheduled tasks are tasks that the system needs to run regularly to keep the application working as expected. Operations such as sending mass emails to all users or cleaning up old data from the database are done in scheduled tasks.

List of required tasks

Here is a list of scheduled tasks you need to configure:

Purpose	Command	Recommended run interval	Note
Clean up expired sessions	bundle exec rails runner ActiveSessionsHelper.cleanup	Once per day
Send daily/weekly marketplace digest emails	bundle exec rails runner CommunityMailer.deliver_community_updates	Once per day
Clean up expired auth tokens	bundle exec rake sharetribe:delete_expired_auth_tokens	Once per day
Synchronize Amazon SES state	bundle exec rake sharetribe:synchronize_verified_with_ses	Every 10 minutes	Only if Amazon SES is use
Retry and clean PayPal tokens	bundle exec rake sharetribe:retry_and_clean_paypal_tokens	Every 10 minutes	Only if PayPal is in use

How to configure scheduled tasks

Heroku provides an easy to use and free add-on Heroku Scheduler to configure scheduled tasks.

In Unix servers crontab can be used to configure scheduled tasks

Consult your hosting provider documentation to find out what is the recommended way to configure scheduled tasks.