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Quick Start

Get Gears running in under 5 minutes! This tutorial shows you the simplest way to schedule and execute jobs.

Installation

using Pkg
Pkg.add("Gears")

Your First Scheduled Job

Here's the minimal example to get you started:

using Gears

# Schedule a job to run every 200 milliseconds
every(200ms) do dt
    println("Task executed at $(now(global_clock()))")
end

# Run the scheduler for 1 second
for_next(1s) do
    update!()
end

That's it! This will:

  1. Schedule a job to print a message every 200ms
  2. Run the scheduler for 1 second
  3. Execute the scheduled task 5 times

What Just Happened?

  • every(200ms) creates a timed job that runs every 200 milliseconds
  • for_next(1s) runs the scheduler for 1 second of simulated time
  • update!() processes all scheduled jobs and advances time
  • now(global_clock()) gets the current time from the default clock

Next Steps

Ready to learn more? Check out the Basic Scheduling tutorial to understand the fundamentals, or jump to any topic that interests you: