My advise is to not mix those waters. 
Use the simplest script you can and put it on cron if that fits.
If you need a job queue and workers, use kue or:
Code your custom queue consumer using that + core cluster.
Lots of options here depending on needs, load and scheduling.

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Pedro


On Saturday, 6 de April de 2013 at 14:00, Michael Nisi wrote:

> You could use setInterval.
> 
> Like here for exampe:
> https://github.com/michaelnisi/troubled-www/blob/master/updater.js
> 
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Daniel Rinehart <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You might want to look at: https://github.com/mattpat/node-schedule
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Jatin Patel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Essentially, it's a set of complex calculation that needs to be done every
> > > 10 minutes. Every 10 minutes, it would go and check for specific info
> > > (updated) in the db and then do the complex calculation. I didn't wanted 
> > > to
> > > use setTimeout() as I thought it wasn't ideal way to handle this - 
> > > something
> > > like Quartz would be great.
> > > 
> > > Thanks-
> > > 
> > > On Thursday, April 4, 2013 11:30:35 PM UTC-4, psema4 wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Jatin Patel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > Hi, I'm looking for a simple way to create a job and then execute that
> > > > > job
> > > > > after some delay time.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > What kind of job? If your job is essentially a function, there's
> > > > setTimeout()
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