Dead simple task scheduling in Rails - Intridea Company Blog
http://intridea.com/2009/2/13/dead-simple-task-scheduling-in-rails?blog=company
Rufus schedulerjavan's whenever at master - GitHub
provides a really easy way to write tasks that must be done repeatedly or at a certain time in a simple Ruby DSL. It can even write out crontab files for you based on the commands and times that you give it.Patrick F. Spear » Projects » gcalcron
When you think about it, a database dump is just SQL code, so why not manage it the same way you manage the rest of your code — in a source code manager? Setting such a scheme up is dead simple. On your production server, with git installed:Downloads: gCalCron Automates Your Linux System with Google Calendar
gcalcron allows you to issue terminal commands to a computer through Google Calendar.
run terminal commands in ubuntu using cron and scheduled by google calendar
Nice is a tad insecure (well as secure as your google account!)Scheduled Tasks With Cron for Python - Google App Engine - Google Code
manual for defining web services to run - schedule tells when to run which URLs and how often to do it
Use Google app engine to run server-side web scripts regularly - as per suggestion in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1955468/call-php-script-every-minute
cron: - description: daily summary job url: /tasks/summary schedule: every 24 hours