Hello, community! been a while since I posted but I hope everyone is doing well. I wanted to share with you a ruby script I created that automatically sends a welcome message to new users that join your discourse forum.
I plan to make it into an actual executable so it’s easier to work with for people who don’t want to dig into code but right now I simply plug in my api and username into the script and then use task scheduler or a cron tab to point to the script and execute it daily.
Enjoy 
Great stuff!
Optimally you might consider packaging this as a plugin to avoid having to have a separate executable or script: Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin
Architecturally you might also consider using out-of-the-box Discourse Events to capture the moment when you’d like to send a user a message - this would avoid scheduling anything.
But if you need it Discourse also has a great scheduler and there are plenty of plugins that create bespoke ‘Jobs’. Scheduling jobs from a plugin - #2 by simon