RQ-Cron 1.0.2

RQ Cron

RQ-Cron

RQ Cron is a cron-like daemon, which can schedule tasks

Requirements

• RQ

• croniter

Installation

pip install RQ-Cron

Usage

rq-cron –config /etc/rq_cron.json

Benefits

1. Simple - uses python internal sched.py

2. Stateless - don’t store state

3. Allows intervals < 60 seconds

4. Saves task execution time in files for monitoring

Example config

Example:

{
       "jobs" : [
              {
                     "queue": "queue1",
                     "name" : "module1.task1",
                     "interval" : 60
              },
              {
                     "interval" : 60,
                     "queue": "queue2",
                     "name" : "module2.task1"
              },
              {
                     "cron" : "32 */3 * * *",
                     "name" : "module3.task1",
                     "kwargs": {
                            "timeout": 30
                     }
              }
       ],
       "status_dir" : "/tmp/rq_cron_status",
       "default_queue": "queue",
       "redis" : "localhost"
    }