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Best methodology for developing c# long running processor apps

I have several different c# worker applications that run various continuous tasks: sending emails from queue, importing new orders from website database to orders database, making database backups and restores, running data processing for OLTP -> OLAP, and other related tasks. Before, I released these as windows services, but currently I...

A cron job for rails: best practices?

What's the best way to run scheduled tasks in a Rails environment? Script/runner? Rake? ...

What are some good .net job scheduler and runner solutions?

I am looking for a solution, or a set of solutions with the following components: Job Scheduler - run a specific job on a specific schedule. I have seen Quartz.NET and it seems like a good framework, however I have not found it to have integrations with the components that follow. Job Runner - run a job, loaded as an AppDomain, from a ...