minicron VS rufus-scheduler

Compare minicron vs rufus-scheduler and see what are their differences.

minicron

🕰️ Monitor your cron jobs (by jamesrwhite)

rufus-scheduler

scheduler for Ruby (at, in, cron and every jobs) (by jmettraux)
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minicron rufus-scheduler
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2,348 2,395
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1.9 5.2
almost 3 years ago 7 days ago
Ruby Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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minicron

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

rufus-scheduler

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  • Best way to schedule jobs in 2023?
    1 project | /r/rails | 19 Dec 2022
    rufus-scheduler gets the job done for me.
  • heroku has abandoned us
    1 project | /r/rails | 6 Sep 2022
    We actually ran a Dokku setup at my previous company and had a scheduler like that. We used https://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-scheduler as a third process (Rails app, workers, scheduler) and it worked well.
  • Newest way to handle Cron Jobs?
    4 projects | /r/rubyonrails | 25 Mar 2022
    - It has built-in support for scheduled jobs using cron syntax, based on fugit, which also powers Rufus scheduler (that now that I look at it might also be a reasonable solution on its own).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing minicron and rufus-scheduler you can also consider the following projects:

Whenever - Cron jobs in Ruby

Clockwork - A scheduler process to replace cron.

sidekiq-scheduler - Lightweight job scheduler extension for Sidekiq

Sidekiq-Cron - Scheduler / Cron for Sidekiq jobs

resque-scheduler - A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of Resque

que-scheduler - A lightweight cron scheduler for the async job worker Que

Montrose - Recurring events library for Ruby. Enumerable recurrence objects and convenient chainable interface.

fugit - time tools (cron, parsing, durations, ...) for Ruby, rufus-scheduler, and flor