= rufus-scheduler

This gem was formerly known as 'openwferu-scheduler'. It has been repackaged as 'rufus-scheduler'. Old 'require' paths 
have been kept for backward compatibility (no need to update your code).

The new license is MIT (not much of a change, the previous license was BSD).


== getting it

    sudo gem install rufus-scheduler

or at

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=4812


== usage

For all the scheduling related information, see the Rufus::Scheduler class rdoc itself or the original OpenWFEru 
scheduler documentation at http://openwferu.rubyforge.org/scheduler.html

Apart from scheduling, There are also two interesting methods in this gem, they are named parse_time_string and 
to_time_string :

    require 'rubygems'
    require 'rufus/otime' # gem 'rufus_scheduler'

    Rufus.parse_time_string "500"        # => 0.5
    Rufus.parse_time_string "1000"       # => 1.0
    Rufus.parse_time_string "1h"         # => 3600.0
    Rufus.parse_time_string "1h10s"      # => 3610.0
    Rufus.parse_time_string "1w2d"       # => 777600.0

    Rufus.to_time_string 60                   # => '1m'
    Rufus.to_time_string 3661                 # => '1h1m1s'
    Rufus.to_time_string 7 * 24 * 3600        # => '1w'


== dependencies

None.


== mailing list

On the rufus-ruby list[http://groups.google.com/group/rufus-ruby] :

    http://groups.google.com/group/rufus-ruby


== issue tracker

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=18584&group_id=4812&func=browse


== source

http://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-scheduler

    git clone git://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-scheduler.git


== author

John Mettraux, jmettraux@gmail.com 
http://jmettraux.wordpress.com


== the rest of Rufus

http://rufus.rubyforge.org


== license

MIT