prevent heroku idling

gistfile1.rb

# in /tasks/scheduler.rake

desc "Called by Heroku cron add-on to stop spin down"
task :call_page => :environment do
   uri = URI.parse('http://www.mikeholubowski.com/')
   Net::HTTP.get(uri)
   puts 'Pinged the site!'
end

# then use the heroku cron add-on to schedule it for every x minutes