This is a dsl for making crontab code that ive been hacking for fun. Ill probably make it into a gem at some stage. Below is an example ruby file that uses crondle. require 'lib/crondle' Crondle.define_jobs do |builder| builder.desc "Restart god every midnight" builder.job "/home/admin/bin/god-restart", :minute => 0, :hour => 0 builder.desc "Do an ls at 00:30 on the 5th day of every month" builder.job "ls", :minute => 30, :hour => 0, :day_of_month => 5 builder.desc "Do a foobar every tuesday at midnight" builder.job "foobar", :day_of_week => :tuesday, :hour => 0, :minute => 0 builder.with_options :minute => 30, :hour => 3, :day_of_week => :sunday do builder.desc "Run argle at 0330 on sundays" builder.job("argle") builder.desc "Run glarg at 0330 on sundays in july" builder.job("glarg", :month => 7) end builder.desc "Run rodney at midnight nightly" builder.daily_job "rodney" builder.desc "Run boner at 3am nightly" builder.daily_job "boner", 3 end Running ruby on this file would produce the following crontab code # Restart god every midnight 0 0 * * * /home/admin/bin/god-restart # Do an ls at 00:30 on the 5th day of every month 30 0 5 * * ls # Do a foobar every tuesday at midnight 0 0 * * 2 foobar # Run argle at 0330 on sundays 30 3 * * 0 argle # Run glarg at 0330 on sundays in july 30 3 * 7 0 glarg # Run rodney at midnight nightly 0 0 * * * rodney # Run boner at 3am nightly 0 3 * * * boner