rufus-scheduler 3.3.0 released

I have just released rufus-scheduler 3.3.0.

Rufus-scheduler is a job scheduling (at, in, every, cron) library available as a Ruby gem. It is not meant as a cron replacement, it lives within the Ruby process using it and dies with it.

Why the jump from 3.2.x to 3.3.x? It's because of a mistake I made: I was relying on ENV['TZ'] to get timezoned Time instances. It works fine and cuts the dependency on the tzinfo gem, but when you're working with multiple threads and one is setting ENV['TZ'] to Europe/Helsinki while another is setting it to America/Houston, both might end up with Time instances in Houston or Helsinki. Chaos.

This rufus-scheduler 3.3.0 brings back the tzinfo dependency and uses it to support its Rufus::Scheduler::ZoTime class. Instances of ZoTime quack like if they were Ruby Time instances but keep their zone as an instance of TZInfo::TimeZone.

Should problems appear after an upgrade to 3.3.0, please fill a clear and detailed issue at https://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-scheduler/issues.

This ENV['TZ'] problem was pointed out (gh-220) by Musha Akinori. Many thanks to him!

A new feature made it into this 3.3.0, it was requested/contributed by Piavka in gh-214. It's a Rufus::Scheduler::Job#trigger_off_schedule method. It lets you trigger a job, off of its schedule. If, during the off schedule run, the job is started "in schedule", overlap settings kick in. Off-schedule or in-schedule, calls to Job#running? will return true. It has its uses with repeat jobs.

This release also contains two fixes. One for .parse_to_time vs Date instances (gh-216), thanks to Nicolás Satragno. And one for "day 0 cronlines" (gh-221), thanks to Ramon Tayag.

Thanks again.