From: Damphyr <damphyr@...>
Date: 2006-12-01T20:07:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Timers, scheduling and Ruby

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:30 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>>
>>> My biggest request:  a sane way (read: not-cron-like) to schedule 
>>> events.  ;)
>>
>> how bout this as the time spec?
>>
>>   http://runt.rubyforge.org/
>>
>> ??
> 
> Ah yes, I looked into Runy recently when someone use it to solve a Ruby 
> Quiz.  Neat stuff.  Plus, if we want additions we can just patch them 
> into Runt.  I like it.
Nice ideas. I still need a UI wrapper for this code though and a way to 
configure events that is non-programmer friendly.
And ofcourse the little ticker in it's thread that checks the schedule 
and fires the events.

Cheers,
V.-
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