# Running custom ruby scripts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-custom-ruby-scripts/236408>\
**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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You could either make it a rake task or it it in a job that you should start manually from `/sidekiq`

You can either upload your csv from the UX and pass it with a setting value as suggested, or upload it into a topic and have your script get the most recent post/upload in the topic, or upload it to /var/discourse/shared/standalone/xxx.csv and the access it as /shared/xxx.csv in the script. Or maybe you should be doing the whole thing with the API rather than uploading a csv file.

You don’t describe what you’re trying to do, just your solution that might not be the best one.

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