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taskr - restful scheduler - by Matt Zukowski
Matt just announced he developed Taskr a RESTful cron / scheduler daemon written in Ruby.
A cron / scheduler managed via REST, that’s neat. PUT a task for execution in 5 days or every day at 6 am. There are facilities for the tasks to interact with other RESTful services.
It’s based on Camping and on the OpenWFEru scheduler. For the Ruby on Rails aficionados, there is a Taskr Rails plugin.
I like the idea, it’s very focused, with a big potential. Congrats to Matt !
tags for scheduled jobs
It’s a feature requested by Lee Fyock : be able to tag jobs at schedule time.
The OpenWFEru scheduler is a tiny Ruby library for scheduling jobs à la “at” or à la “cron”. It’s part of OpenWFEru, but it’s also available in its own gem ‘openwferu-scheduler’.
Here are some examples of the scheduler, with and without tags :
A schedule now accepts a :tags attribute with one or more “tags”. It’s easy then to ask the scheduler for jobs that bear a certain tag.
Enjoy ! Feedback is welcome.
launch at
Pat suggested the extension of the launch method of the OpenWFEru engine as follow :
Why not ? It’s already possible to do that by launching a simple process wrapping the call to the main process inside a ‘cron’ or or after a ’sleep’, but why not a bit of abstraction ?
It should be available in OpenWFEru 0.9.14.
On another front, the ‘densha‘ web application is getting better every day. Thanks to Juan-Pedro for his feedback and patches !
gem install openwferu-scheduler
The OpenWFEru scheduler is a small library for scheduling tasks in Ruby.
It’s used within the OpenWFEru workflow and bpm engine for expressions like ‘when’, ‘cron’, ’sleep’, ‘wait’…
As it makes sense also outside of OpenWFEru, I packaged it in its own gem.
You can now do “[sudo] gem install openwferu-scheduler” to get a simple scheduler but not the whole OpenWFEru bpm circus.
ruby task scheduling
Ilya Grigorik wrote a nice blog post about scheduling for Ruby. He presents three solutions with a code example for each of them.
Among the solution he details, there is our OpenWFEru scheduler.
The project BackgrounDRB seems very interesting as well.
Ilya’s previous post was great : an RSS aggregator in 26 lines of Ruby code.