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I’m developing a new project using the Ruby on Rails to communicate with a legacy system made in COBOL. This communication will be done through TXT files, that is, when I have to pick up information I have to read a folder, open the TXT files and process. If you want to record send information I have to write in TXT file in another folder that the application takes care of the rest.
How to read and record TXT I have already been able to implement, my question is:
How to implement a process or service running on Rails background, In this process I configure that after given time it checks if there are TXT files in a given directory, read the contents, process, move or delete the TXT file. Another process I have to implement is to check for information so I can export in TXT to the legacy system.
Just highlighting this process has to activate when the Rails app is started.