Co-Cron

• Basic module to manage CronJobs for your Compound.js Application
• Based on the excellent npm cron module
• Check cron out for more documentation on Node.js cron implementation

Usage

npm install co-cron

• add 'co-cron' to your autoloaders
• Use the config/initializers/initialize.[js/coffee] to configure Cronjobs on start of an application
• You can manually create CronJobs or route automation at any time via the methods

Methods

Cron_Wrapper#daemonize_route(namespace, options)

daemonize a specific route on your compound.js app so you can keep your code in the controller and still make it client accessible

compound.cron.daemonize_route 'test',
  route: 'api#test'
  params:
    example: true
  cronTime: '* * * * * *' # every second 
  start: false

Cron_Wrapper#job(namespace, options)

task = ->
    # Runs every weekday (Monday through Friday) 
    # at 11:30:00 AM. It does not run on Saturday 
    # or Sunday. 
    console.log "I am a lovely function"
 
compound.cron.job 'test',
  cronTime: '00 30 11 * * 1-5'    # cron time 
  onTick: task                    # function to perform 
  start: false                    # to autostart the job or not 
  timeZone: "America/Los_Angeles" # schedule it based on a specific timezone  

A convience wrapper for cron's base CronJob creation method

Cron_Wrapper#remove(namespace)

Stops & removes a job stored on a namespace from the Cron_Wrapper.jobs object

Cron_Wrapper#start(namespace)

Starts a job stored on the namespace in the Cron_Wrapper.jobs object

Cron_Wrapper#stop(namespace)

Stops a job stored on the namespace in the Cron_Wrapper.jobs object

• checkout examples/