How to add a job to cron/anacron when creating Docker container

[eviltrout (Robin Ward)]

I would begin with the plugin tutorial series for the basic structure of a plugin:

Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin

Building a plugin in Discourse can be really simple, once you learn a couple of quirks. The goal of this post is to create a skeleton plugin and introduce you to the basics. Your development environment Make sure you have a development environment of Discourse running on your computer. I recommend you use the appropriate setup guide and come back when you’re done. plugin.rb Use GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins to create a complete discourse…

If you want an example of how to add a job to a plugin the discourse-assign plugin has one that sends periodic reminders:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-assign/blob/master/jobs/scheduled/enqueue_reminders.rb