ticker

A Ticker is an object that yields a Time::Instant on an interval.

Installation

1. Add the dependency to your shard.yml:

   dependencies:
     ticker:
       github: jgaskins/ticker

2. Run shards install

Usage

ticker = Ticker.new(interval: 5.seconds)

ticker.each do
  # work to be done every 5 seconds
end

Example: Polling the database for jobs

There is an example showing how to use a Ticker to poll Postgres for background jobs inside examples/job_polling.cr.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/jgaskins/ticker/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Jamie Gaskins - creator and maintainer