Schedule using Rufus scheduler

We learned how to create Rake tasks in rails app. Next thing in process will be scheduling these tasks.

I opted for Rufu-Scheduler, mainly bcs it is quite simple to implement/configure

You can download the gem directly from : http://gems.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/

There some good resources in net which describes usage of Rufus scheduler.

Like :http://rufus.rubyforge.org/rufus-scheduler/

But some how I got myself into trouble in getting this to working ;(

Following are questions that bubbled in my mind while implementing Rufus.

>> Where do I put the scheduler code?

>> How will rails trigger my tasks, do I need to include something in my config. file?


I created a file in my /lib dir named myscheduler.rb, this contains the scheduler code and inorder to allow rails to load your rufus scheduler, you have to do

require ' myscheduler'

in environment.rb


My myscheduler.rb has

  
require 'rubygems'
require 'rake'
require 'rufus/scheduler'
load File.join( RAILS_ROOT, 'lib', 
'tasks', 'mytasks.rake')

# Note include file containing your rake tasks
# Else you will get - Don’t know how to build 
#task XXXXX’ error for the tasks you 
#have defined

scheduler = Rufus::Scheduler.start_new

scheduler.every("1m") do
puts "Scheduler invoked"
end

restart the server and check for 'Scheduler invoked' in your CMD.

Got it ......... your half done with your scheduling, take a break ;)