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| minicron | Whenever | |
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| - | 19 | |
| 2,348 | 8,789 | |
| - | - | |
| 1.9 | 4.1 | |
| almost 3 years ago | 27 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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Posts with mentions or reviews of minicron.
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
Whenever
Posts with mentions or reviews of Whenever.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-02.
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How do you schedule jobs far out in advanced?
there are cronjob gems available, i believe https://github.com/javan/whenever or so seems to be used frequently
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Deploy API only Rails App with Capistrano
whenever gem is used in Rails applications to schedule cron jobs e.g. send email notification about monthly expenditure on the 1st of each month.
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railstart-niceadmin support more features
- [whenever](https://github.com/javan/whenever)
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railstart-niceadmin release now!Backend management system based on Bootstrap 5 and NiceAdmin and Rails 7
whenever
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Is sleep precise enough?
There are multiple ways to achieve this. Probably the simplest and most reliable is to rely on cron to run your process every minute. Cron keeps track of time and executes your script each minute. This has the added benefit of avoiding a long running process (which can have its own issues). You can even have your script install it’s own cron job using the Whenever gem.
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🤷♀️ The easiest way to monitor your app in production is email?
Rake tasks can be called from Cron, so we'll use the Whenever Gem to automatically add our job to our Crontab during deployment, and keep our schedule in change control.
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I want the server to run a specific request every 24 hours, should I use Active Jobs for this?
If you want a gem use Whenever Rails Gem. If you like to manually crontab the shit out of your app, use crontab -e
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How to write a script in ruby?
There are some good answers here that explain what cron is, but you might want to look at the whenever gem for managing cron jobs. This lets you define cron jobs in Ruby instead of dealing directly with your crontab file.
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10 Signs of a good Ruby on Rails Developer
crontabs with whenever, schedules work for you.
- How can I schedule a job to be executed in the future ?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing minicron and Whenever you can also consider the following projects:
Clockwork - A scheduler process to replace cron.
Sidekiq-Cron - Scheduler / Cron for Sidekiq jobs
rufus-scheduler - scheduler for Ruby (at, in, cron and every jobs)
sidekiq-scheduler - Lightweight job scheduler extension for Sidekiq
resque-scheduler - A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of Resque
delayed_job_recurring - Extends delayed_job to support recurring jobs
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.
Whenever vs Clockwork
Whenever vs Sidekiq-Cron
Whenever vs rufus-scheduler
Whenever vs sidekiq-scheduler
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minicron vs Clockwork
minicron vs Sidekiq-Cron
minicron vs rufus-scheduler
Whenever vs delayed_job_recurring
minicron vs resque-scheduler
minicron vs que-scheduler
minicron vs Montrose