theman is a super simple "framework" that uses god/rufus-scheduler to create long running workers that do things at certain times.
theman is easy to get running, it doesn't have any other dependences other than god and rufus/scheduler.
git clone git://github.com/jcapote/theman.git
cd theman
god -c boot.god -D
This will start all the workers that have _worker.rb appended to them in the workers directory.
A worker is nothing more than a ruby script that requires 'worker', subclasses Worker, and lives in the worker directory with _worker.rb in the name. This is an example worker:
require 'worker'
class ExampleWorker < Worker
def start
logger "starting task"
end
every "5s", :start
end
It looks like a regular ruby class, except towards the bottom we have a line were we specify when and what to run. For all the possible commands take a look at workers/example_worker.rb
Note: make sure your when/what line is at the bottom of your class
Sometimes it's useful to run a worker right now as opposed to when it's supposed to run, to do this just run the worker manually with the "now" argument:
ruby -I lib/ workers/example_worker.rb now