First off you'll need to edit your cron file. Normally, the cron files are kept under /etc/cron.daily or /etc/cron.hourly but we can just use the command line tool, crontab and pass it the -e flag, so that we can edit the file without any fuss. sudo cron...

If you would like to force a file download prompt to the user, instead of just outputting the text to the browser, use the following headers. ...

If you want to insert a datetime that matches the default mysql datetime type format use this date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

I just wrote and released my first Ruby Gem, Hashed Attributes https://rubygems.org/gems/hashed_attributes. It is a very simple ActiveRecord extension for saving variables through a serialized hash. The Gem will let you declare getter and setter methods t...