Show HN: Cronut – A dead man's switch for those pesky cron jobs

[migrantgeek]

I like the idea. I solved the same problem with Jenkins. We already had it setup for CI and CD.

We then added a view and jobs for scheduled tasks. Removing crons from servers is huge.

Now I can see what's failing, what's working and share that easily with a non-technical person via web browser.

[smutton]

This is just personal preference, but when I saw "98% Ruby" on the Github repository, I CTRL+W'd in the quickest of manners.

[werkshy]

Because everything written in Ruby is junk? This project can be used by any system that uses a cron-like syntax for scheduling jobs, regardless of the languages and frameworks that system is built with.

[jtoberon]

This doesn't seem like a useful contribution. For example, even though I prefer not to write C on a daily basis, I still use C-based tools all the time.