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Rafael Rocha
Rafael Rocha
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Posted by Rafael Rocha
Rafael Rocha
9,583 Points

Polling data form XML without user interaction

Hi Guys,

I'm doing an app that time to time need to refresh my model with a third party xml content.

I'm using Nokogiri to parse the XML, but as soon as I need to get the content time to time without the user interaction, where should I call my method auto_update_from_feed ??

    def self.auto_update_from_feed(delay_interval = 1.minutes)
#fake url
        file = open("http://www.sample.com/sample.xml")
        xml = Nokogiri::XML(file)


        loop do
            sleep delay_interval.to_i
            add_entries(xml)
        end
    end

Thanks