From: "Kyrre Nygård" <kyrreny@...>
Date: 2007-08-16T06:29:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Any Muslims around?

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John Mettraux wrote:
> On 8/14/07, Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@venyon.com> wrote:
>   
>>> Just wondering if any Muslims have gotten around to making a
>>> Ruby script
>>> that like plays a sound or something when it's time for prayer.
>>>       
>> I guess time for prayer is at certain times per day? You could
>> get the current time with Time.now, then sleep the appropriate
>> time to the next prayer, and then wake up and to whatever you
>> would like to do.
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> you could also have a look at :
>
> http://openwferu.rubyforge.org/scheduler.html
>
>
> to install it :
>
>    sudo gem install openwferu-scheduler
>
>
> then write a program that looks like :
>
> ---8<---
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'openwfe/util/scheduler'
>
> include OpenWFE
>
> scheduler = Scheduler.new
> scheduler.start
>
> scheduler.schedule("0 6 * * *") do
>    puts "time for the morning prayer"
> end
> scheduler.schedule("0 12 * * *") do
>    puts "time for the noon prayer"
> end
>
> # or
>
> scheduler.schedule("0 6,8,12,16,18 * * *") do
>    puts "bismillah..."
> end
> --->8---
>
> The scheduler follows the "cron" convention
> (http://www.google.com/search?q=man%205%20crontab)
>
> Maybe you're better off with a ruby program triggered by the cron in
> your system (if it's a Unix / MacOSX one).
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>   
Some awesome suggestions here, but I think it's a bit more complex 
considering how times vary from location to location. I guess I'll have 
to try to make sense out of 
http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=ITL. As I said though, I'll 
report back to base once I got something.

Thanks again guys!

All the best,
Kyrre

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