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How to set up cron for a particular time on Heroku
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heroku_cron.rb
# Heroku only lets you run cron jobs at the specific time that you add cron to your app, so here's a quick script that I used
# to make that happen.
until Time.now.hour == 3 && Time.now.min == 30
puts "Still not time..."
sleep 60
end
system("heroku addons:add cron")
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