Ruby on Rails how to get started with whenever cron in Windows 10

Question

I need to create a cronjob in windows using ruby on rails. I am using 'whenever' gem for that but not getting proper idea about that. Please let me know if there any alternative way for that.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The software utility cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. You can't use cron because you're using Windows. I suggest you try cygwin

Cygwin is:

a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows.

Cygwin is not:

a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You must rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows.

How do you run a crontab in Cygwin on Windows?