From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2012-01-24T18:18:25+09:00
Subject: Register an action to be done at a later time

Hi.

I have a "pseudo-shell" and this shell allows me to do something like:

"in 30 minutes do start alarm"

^^^ In 30 minutes, mplayer would play some files.

So far so fine. Right now when I quit the shell though, this will
never be done. So my idea of course is to store this in a file, and
on startup of my pseudo-shell, load all those registered tasks.

Now here is my question - what would be the best way to do this?

Should I store in a yaml file, and on startup load all those yaml
files and do a Thread.new {} ?

Should I use marshall instead?

Or any other ideas?

Am very grateful for ideas! I sound extremely incompetent right now
because I have never tried to write something like a cron-replacement.

(In the future, perhaps a daemon should be running that is doing this on
its own... but for now, I want to keep it simpler.)

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