Question

My ruby application will be running on Windows XP. I need some kind of cron that will run tasks on regular basis. I want all this to be done in ruby.

Is there any cron like ruby gem for Windows?

I would like to have pure ruby solution. I know that Windows Scheduled Task thing exists.

Answer 1

gem rufus-scheduler is the answer. Don’t forget to use scheduler.join

require 'rubygems'
require 'rufus/scheduler'

scheduler = Rufus::Scheduler.start_new

scheduler.every '1m' do
  puts "1 -  #{Time.new.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")}"

end


scheduler.join