# Schedule jobs with ruby **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 4, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/schedule-jobs-with-ruby/125046 "2008-01-04T20:20:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/schedule-jobs-with-ruby/125046/1 "2008-01-04T20:20:07Z")
are there any tools to schedule jobs with ruby in xp. i dont want to use the windows scheduled jobs as i am having issue with it. ---
**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/schedule-jobs-with-ruby/125046/2 "2008-01-04T21:01:02Z")
On 04.01.2008 20:13, Junkone wrote: > are there any tools to schedule jobs with ruby in xp. i dont want to > use the windows scheduled jobs as i am having issue with it. I think there was some discussion of scheduling implemented in Ruby a while ago here but can’t remember the details. Maybe a search in the archives reveals more. RAA would also be a good place to look. Then you also have to invoke some kind of service wrapper around the Ruby interpreter but I believe you’ll find something like this - maybe even from MS. HTH Kind regards robert ---
**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/schedule-jobs-with-ruby/125046/3 "2008-01-04T21:15:40Z")
On Jan 4, 1:00 pm, Robert K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > from MS. HTH > The Task Scheduler is already a service, but it’s possible there’s > something else out there. There’s probably ‘cron for windows’ and > such. A pure Ruby cron-like service would be a cool project, > though. 🙂 Junkone, are you having trouble with the taskscheduler or the win32- taskscheduler library? The latter could probably use some TLC. Regards, Dan ---
**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/schedule-jobs-with-ruby/125046/4 "2008-01-05T03:25:47Z")
On Jan 4, 1:13 pm, Junkone [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > are there any tools to schedule jobs with ruby in xp. i dont want to > use the windows scheduled jobs as i am having issue with it. You may want to take a look at this article [http://www.igvita.com/2007/03/29/scheduling-tasks-in-ruby-rails/](http://www.igvita.com/2007/03/29/scheduling-tasks-in-ruby-rails/) Luis ---
**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/schedule-jobs-with-ruby/125046/5 "2008-01-05T03:41:40Z")
On Jan 5, 2008 11:24 AM, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On Jan 4, 1:13 pm, Junkone [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > are there any tools to schedule jobs with ruby in xp. i dont want to > > use the windows scheduled jobs as i am having issue with it. > > You may want to take a look at this article > [Scheduling tasks in Ruby / Rails - igvita.com](http://www.igvita.com/2007/03/29/scheduling-tasks-in-ruby-rails/) There is Taskr that just got out of the door : [http://code.google.com/p/ruby-taskr/](http://code.google.com/p/ruby-taskr/) Though maybe it’s already a bit too much for just “ruby in xp”. Best regards, ---
**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 9:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/schedule-jobs-with-ruby/125046/6 "2008-01-05T09:00:10Z")
Robert K. wrote: > Kind regards > > ``` > robert > > ``` I use PyCron on Windows which is very similar to Cron. It works well, runs as a service, automatically restarts when Windows starts up and can schedule anything. I use it kickstart a CMD file that sets all the environment variables we need and then class the Ruby script we want. Hope this helps. Cheers, Mohit. 1/5/2008 | 3:59 PM. ---
**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/schedule-jobs-with-ruby/125046/7 "2008-01-05T03:45:11Z")
Or, maybe, use an existing solution: (This was just the first google result 😉 [http://cronw.sourceforge.net/](http://cronw.sourceforge.net/) ---
**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 12:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/schedule-jobs-with-ruby/125046/8 "2008-01-05T12:02:36Z")
How about the “at” command instead then?