# Creating jobs in a plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-jobs-in-a-plugin/367998
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [May 29, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-jobs-in-a-plugin/367998 "2025-05-29T00:59:18Z")
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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-jobs-in-a-plugin/367998/1 "2025-05-29T00:59:18Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/periodic-custom-jobs/117383):

How exactly does one create their own custom job that runs periodically? Is it very difficult to achieve?

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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-jobs-in-a-plugin/367998/2 "2025-05-29T02:22:00Z")

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Never mind, I found this here:

> [@Scheduling jobs from a plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scheduling-jobs-from-a-plugin/40238/2):
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> This seems to work. after\_initialize do class :Jobs:ExampleJob \< Jobs::Scheduled every 30.seconds def execute(args) puts "THIS IS A TEST" end end end