How can I keep my Twitter Bot awake with Rails? - ruby-on-rails

Question

My main purpose is creating a twitter bot. Which is basically going to retweet tweets from certain accounts. Everything works properly except keeping the bot awake. In order to keep to bot awake, I need to leave my laptop and console open. How can I deploy an App that will do this for me? I want to put the server to work for all this. I tried with Heroku but it gives timeout as expected cause request is should be open to keep my method going.
Thanks in advance...
my method:
def self.start_bot
#client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
config.consumer_key = ENV["CONSUMER_KEY"]
config.consumer_secret = ENV["CONSUMER_SECRET_KEY"]
config.access_token = ENV["ACCESS_TOKEN"]
config.access_token_secret = ENV["ACCESS_SECRET_TOKEN"]
end
while true do
begin
#client.search("from:ExampleAccount1 OR from:ExampleAccount1 OR from:ExampleAccount1
min_faves:250 -rt", result_type: "recent").take(5).collect do |tweet|
begin
#client.fav(tweet)
#client.retweet(tweet)
sleep(2)
rescue
puts "Already retweeted."
sleep(3)
end
end
puts "one round completed."
sleep(120)
rescue
puts "Something Happened"
sleep(240)
end
end
end

Answer 1

I think for your requirement you can use #clockwork_gem
You need to do the following:
Firstly install the clockwork gem.
In your lib folder create a lib/clock.rb
### Example :-
require 'clockwork'
require './config/boot'
require './config/environment'
module Clockwork
handler do |job|
puts "Running #{job}"
end
every(1.day, 'Creating Cycle', :at => '12:00') {YourClass_name.start_bot}
end
Create a procfile
To your Procfile use like this
worker: bundle exec clockwork lib/clock.rb
it will start the server every time after Heroku push/web server restart.
Or you can run using console from your computer like this but in this case, you need to run every time after web server restarting
heroku run bundle exec clockwork lib/clock.rb
and from Heroku open console and type
bundle exec clockwork lib/clock.rb
Hope this will help :)