From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2009-05-26T05:48:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Runnin code at a certain time?

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 05:36 +0900, Caleb Clausen wrote:
> >    I am new to ruby and I am attempting to run some code at a certain
> > time. The Ruby Time class is very interesting, you can add time, and do
> > all of these amazing things but i cannot find a way to run code at a
> > certain time. I feel like I'm missing something. So far all I have is:
> >
> > sleep(1) while Time.now < ("Time")
> >
> > How would I link some code to be run to this? Or is there an easier way?

You might want to try my Scheduler gem.

 Scheduler.at_time(time_in_seconds_from_epoch) do
   # ... stuff to do ...
 end

-mental