Re: How to schedule events on specific days/times

From	Simon Krahnke <overlord@gmx.li>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.ruby
Subject	Re: How to schedule events on specific days/times
Date	2012-09-08 13:12 +0200
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* Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> (2012-08-29) schrieb:

>On 28.08.2012 22:48, z0mbix@gmail.com wrote:
>> This is simple and already implemented, but what I need to do is play
>> different playlists on each day of the week, and only during the
>> specified times, so I need some way to schedule events to switch
>> playlists at the specified days/times. I've not had to do anything
>> like this before and not sure what the best approach is. Should there
>> be a separate thread that wakes up every minute to check if a switch
>> is required, or is there a better way to do this?
>
>There might be solutions for scheduling around.  Did you look in RAA or
>Gem repository?  If you want to do it yourself, you can make that more
>intelligent than polling.  Basically you need to calculate the next even
>(i.e. music on) and sleep until that point in time is reached.  Then
>start playing.  If you want to be able to modify the schedule online
>(i.e. while the application is running) things get a bit more
>complicated because you may have to wake up earlier than intended.

Kernel#sleep, Thread#run.

mfg,              simon .... l

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How to schedule events on specific days/times z0mbix@gmail.com - 2012-08-28 13:48 -0700
  Re: How to schedule events on specific days/times Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-08-29 08:13 +0200
    Re: How to schedule events on specific days/times Simon Krahnke <overlord@gmx.li> - 2012-09-08 13:12 +0200

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