From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2012-01-25T08:14:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Register an action to be done at a later time

> Why do you want to write a cron replacement?

I can't use cron on Windows.

Cron syntax sucks so much that I am surprised that the Linux guys are 
too lazy to write an alternative in Ruby. "Do it yourself" seems to no 
longer exist that much!

> Right, you should have a demon and your script would only be the
> front end.

Hmm. I think perhaps I should indeed start a new small project that
does that. Will put it on github once it works.

Thanks. :)

> You could as well make your script / shell create at or cron jobs
> in the background so it would just be a convenient proxy for those.
> You could leverage the robustness of those tools while providing
> a convenient user interface.

Yup, think so too. Now that I set my head to it, I'll go the route
of starting a new project.

If anyone has suggestions on good daemons or other ruby projects
around that theme (daemons and cron / at time tasks), I am all ears!

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