ruby-taskr

Taskr is a stand-alone HTTP daemon, providing a cron-like networked scheduling service. Tasks can be created and managed problematically via REST calls over HTTP allowing other REST-aware services to schedule and manage jobs, or manually via a nice web interface. One common use for Taskr is to schedule jobs to be executed on remote Rails servers. However, Taskr is a far more generic tool, capable of performing a wide range of scheduled actions. Taskr jobs can be as simple as single-line shell commands (similar to cron), but support is built-in for more complex, higher-level actions. For example, Taskr can be used to place a REST call to another RESTful service, such as sending out a timed message via the Howlr RESTful messaging daemon, or it can be used to execute arbitrary code on a remote Ruby on Rails server via the Taskr4rails plugin.