Writing Cron Jobs With Rails Part 1

Posted about 1 year ago

I am working on a personal use Rails application that I use to create reminders using Cron...

There are a couple gems that are useful for dealing with Cron using Ruby. The first is rbcrontab which allows you to create crontab entries using Ruby. The other is trak3r-crontabr which actually maintains a crontab using Ruby. The latter of the two might be easier to use for those who do not understand Cron syntax but know Ruby well. I am leaning toward rbcrontab right now simply because I feel it may fit my needs better than trak3r-crontabr.

I'm not sure that I really need a full blown web interface or not. It would be nice but I think what I really need is just a mailer with templates. I don't know, once I figure out the details I will make a part 2.

Sean