Sidekiq-Cron VS rufus-scheduler

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

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Sidekiq-Cron rufus-scheduler
5 3
1,819 2,398
1.0% -
6.8 5.2
6 days ago 10 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Sidekiq-Cron

Posts with mentions or reviews of Sidekiq-Cron. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-12.

rufus-scheduler

Posts with mentions or reviews of rufus-scheduler. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-25.
  • 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 Sidekiq-Cron and rufus-scheduler you can also consider the following projects:

sidekiq-scheduler - Lightweight job scheduler extension for Sidekiq

Whenever - Cron jobs in Ruby

Clockwork - A scheduler process to replace cron.

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

minicron - 🕰️ Monitor your cron jobs

cloudtasker - Background jobs for Ruby using Google Cloud Tasks

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