# Running custom ruby scripts

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [August 17, 2022, 9:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-custom-ruby-scripts/236408 "2022-08-17T09:41:24Z")\
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One approach is to upload the file and then store the url in a setting. Uploading a file will prevent it getting deleted.

You can have a job run in a plugin. There are loads of examples of jobs in discourse and Pavilion plugins.

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