Cronjobs

DSL to manage cronjobs in rails.

I did this gem to:

• Enforce better practices removing unnecessary options.
• User plain old school cron syntax.
• Keep a close integration with rails.

Put this line in your Gemfile:

gem 'cronjobs'

Then bundle:

$ bundle

Generate the definitions file:

$ bundle exec rails g cronjobs:install

Set the global settings:

Cronjobs.define do

  env 'PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin'
  mailto 'test@mail.com'
  output Rails.root.join('log/cronjobs.log')

end

Add the jobs to the definitions file:

Cronjobs.define do

  every '* 1 * * *' do
    rake 'invoices:generate'
  end

  every '0 5 * * *' do
    runner 'User.clear_guests'
  end

end

In your deploy recipe use the rake task to update the cronjobs:

$ bundle exec rake cronjobs:update

Any issue, pull request, comment of any kind is more than welcome!

I will mainly ensure compatibility to PostgreSQL, AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch, FreeBSD and Memcached. 

This gem is maintained and funded by mmontossi.

It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the MIT-LICENSE file.