There’s a funky RubyGem available over on Rubyforge for managing your systems cron jobs. When I first started to read about it I got confused because it says you add a cron job for the jobmanager which then runs your cron jobs.
Madness…not quite.
This jobmanager thingy actually provides a great set of tools that sit in between your cron and jobs that enables you to log events, email people on completion, manage timeouts and rotate logs. So its kind of job-management-on-steroids-without-the-steroids. 
Just yesterday I was reading about Dracula, Romanian language, Vlad the Impaler, Transylvania, etc. As you do of a Sunday evening.
