From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2004-11-12T05:58:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing a looping, low-configuration script in Ruby

> "crontab -e"

> $ crontab -
> */30 * * * *    /path/to/script.rb

> Process.fork do
> ...
>   sleep...

This is a generally useful thing to do.

Is there any standard way to do this on windows? Is using win32/popen3 
library the preferred way? How can you write a script that will work "out of 
the box" (ie one-click-installer) on windows as well as doing the normal 
unix thing on unix?

Cheers,
Dave