Can I keep re-running the same script? how?

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Uh...

while (true) do
  # your stuff here
  sleep(180)
end

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-----Original Message-----
From: ara.t.howard@noaa.gov [mailto:ara.t.howard@noaa.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 3:37 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: can I keep re-running the same script? how?

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Hunter Walker wrote:

> I want to run a particular script every 3 minutes. I would do this
> using crontab in Linux, but I am having trouble getting that to work.
> The script works fine from the Windows or Linux command line, however.
>
> I thought it might be easier to add some code to the end of the script
> that tells it to sleep for three mins and then start at the beginning.
>
> Any thoughts? As always, I appreciate your help.
>
> -Hunter
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.

sleep 180
exec ["ruby" + ARGV].join(' ')

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