Description
The win32-taskscheduler library is a Ruby interface to the MS Windows Task
Scheduler. It is analogous to the Unix cron daemon.
Installation
gem install win32-taskscheduler
Synopsis
require 'win32/taskscheduler'
include Win32
ts = TaskScheduler.new
trigger = {
:start_year => 2014,
:start_month => 4,
:start_day => 25,
:start_hour => 23,
:start_minute => 5,
:trigger_type => TaskScheduler::MONTHLYDOW,
:type => {
:weeks => TaskScheduler::FIRST_WEEK | TaskScheduler::LAST_WEEK,
:days_of_week => TaskScheduler::MONDAY | TaskScheduler::FRIDAY,
:months => TaskScheduler::APRIL | TaskScheduler::MAY
}
}
ts.new_work_item('my_notepad', trigger)
ts.application_name = 'notepad.exe'
ts.activate('my_notepad')
Documentation
If you installed this library as a gem then the documentation was built for
you and can be viewed if your gem server is running. There is also some
documentation on the github wiki page.
Acknowledgements
This library was modeled to some degree on the Win32::TaskScheduler Perl
module by Umberto Nicoletti. However, there are some differences. Please see
the documentation for details.
Warranty
This package is provided "as is" and without any express or
implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied
warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
Known Issues
In some cases JRuby appears to raise a native exception rather than a
Ruby exception on failure. This should be mostly harmless.
Please submit any bug reports to the project page at
http://github.com/djberg96/win32-taskscheduler or
http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils.
Copyright
(C) 2003-2014 Daniel J. Berger
All Rights Reserved
License
Artistic 2.0
Authors
Park Heesob
Daniel Berger