em-timers

helper methods for timers in EventMachine

examples:

# Once per hour, starting now. Note the :now symbol must be passed for your block to be called immediately. EM.do_hourly(:starting => :now) { puts “drink a beer” }

# Once per day, starting in 1 day. EM.do_daily { puts “take a shower” }

# Once per week, starting in 10 hours EM.do_weekly(:starting => 10.hours.from_now) { puts “take out the garbage” }

# Once per month, starting at this time tomorrow. EM.do_monthly(:starting => 1.day.from_now) { puts “pay the bills” }

# Or you can simply pass a number of seconds til starting EM.do_monthly(:starting => 2592000) { puts “pay the bills, in seconds!” }

# Leveraging the Chronic time parsing library. em-timers knows if you have required # Chronic and uses it to parse strings if you have. Otherwise, it uses Time.parse. # # Every 2 hours, starting next Tuesday at 9AM. require ‘chronic’ EM.do(:every => 2.hours, :starting => ‘next tuesday at 9am’) { puts “go pee” }

# You can add up units of time as well EM.do(:every => 1.minutes + 3.seconds) { puts “hi!” }

TODO:

Maintain a list of task signatures and their associated timer signatures so tasks can be canceled.

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