Heres a bit more information for those who want to know a little more like how to queue up jobs every hour. (I think this wasn't included for simplicity)

To queue up jobs to run hourly open routes/console.php and add the below:

use App\Jobs\UpdateIdeaStatistics; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schedule;

// Hourly means at 10:00, 11:00 etc etc not when it was started. Schedule::job(new UpdateIdeaStatistics)->hourly();

// You could also run for every minute etc etc, which I advise for testing and making sure you've setup everything correctly. Schedule::job(new UpdateIdeaStatistics)->everyMinute();

As with everything for queues this won't just magically work, though it is super simple.

In order for it to work, we need to deply a scheduer which is responsible for co-ordinating/scheduling the repeat jobs.

Open a new cli and type php artisan schedule:work this will setup your scheduler.

Make sure to deploy a worker too in another cli by running php artisan queue:work.

Check your log file after an hour, or a minute depending on which one you choose from the above options and you should see the log in there from the logger().

You will also see the below in your scheduler CLI (the one you ran php artisan schedule:work in):

INFO Running scheduled tasks.
INFO No scheduled commands are ready to run.
2026-02-01 19:36:00 Running [App\Jobs\UpdateIdeaStatistics] ... 18.08ms DONE 2026-02-01 19:37:00 Running [App\Jobs\UpdateIdeaStatistics] ... 15.33ms DONE INFO No scheduled commands are ready to run.

Super cool and super simple :)

When to Queue it Up