Possible RubyQuiz idea

[Hal Fulton]

This might be too easy, it's JEG2's call.

Read in an ordinary crontab file and print out a list of
jobs that will run in the next N minutes.

Just a thought.


Cheers,
Hal

 

[Austin Ziegler]

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[ara.t.howard]

Fairly easy, but with some interesting edge cases (t + N crossing an
hour, day, month, or year boundary; dealing with leap years; dealing
with summer time/winter time switches).

not to mention cron supports variables, ranges, wildcards, and lists!


-a

 

[Robert Dober]

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not to mention cron supports variables, ranges, wildcards, and lists!


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Rewriting cron in ruby

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[James Edward Gray II]

Rewriting cron in ruby

Call me crazy, but that one sounds like fun to me.

James Edward Gray II

 

[azrael]

Call me crazy, but that one sounds like fun to me.

You should aim high, and think "bigger than cron".

Create one convention-over-configuration Ruby program with Needles that
can replace crond, atd, init, supervise, inetd and anything else that
starts a program ever; make it supports port-proxying, lazy loading of services, signal handling, session-handling and automatic dependency discovery. *Then* you're talking.

Cron? Tchoh.

Martin

 

[Zed Shaw]

You should aim high, and think "bigger than cron".

Create one convention-over-configuration Ruby program with Needles that
can replace crond, atd, init, supervise, inetd and anything else that
starts a program ever; make it supports port-proxying, lazy loading of
services, signal handling, session-handling and automatic dependency
discovery. *Then* you're talking.

Cron? Tchoh.

Then watch as people gleefully hack into the newly started
RubyCronolithOfTheGods.

Could be fun though.

Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/

 

[pat eyler]

You should aim high, and think "bigger than cron".

Create one convention-over-configuration Ruby program with Needles that
can replace crond, atd, init, supervise, inetd and anything else that
starts a program ever; make it supports port-proxying, lazy loading of se= rvices,
signal handling, session-handling and automatic dependency discovery.
*Then* you're talking.

Spend some time looking at CFEngine and CFRuby/libcf if you choose to
go down this path.

 

[azrael]

Spend some time looking at CFEngine and CFRuby/libcf if you choose to
go down this path.

Ooh, this looks interesting.

Martin

 

[Robert Dober]

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You should aim high, and think "bigger than cron".

Create one convention-over-configuration Ruby program with Needles that
can replace crond, atd, init, supervise, inetd and anything else that
starts a program ever; make it supports port-proxying, lazy loading of
services, signal handling, session-handling and automatic dependency
discovery. *Then* you're talking.

Cron? Tchoh.

Martin

Do not touch!!! This belongs to Hurd

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Deux choses sont infinies : l'univers et la b=EAtise humaine ; en ce qui
concerne l'univers, je n'en ai pas acquis la certitude absolue.

- Albert Einstein

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[Hal Fulton]

not to mention cron supports variables, ranges, wildcards, and lists!

Yes, it's ranges, wildcards, and lists that make it interesting
to me, not the edge cases. As for variables, I'm not sure what
you mean.

One reason I mention this idea is that I have had a practical need
for it on several occasions and have never got around to writing
such a tool.


Hal

 

[Logan Capaldo]

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You should aim high, and think "bigger than cron".

Create one convention-over-configuration Ruby program with Needles
that
can replace crond, atd, init, supervise, inetd and anything else that
starts a program ever; make it supports port-proxying, lazy loading
of services, signal handling, session-handling and automatic
dependency discovery. *Then* you're talking.

Cron? Tchoh.

Martin

too bad launchd isn't written in ruby
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