The info in the book describes the scheduler and favors it over cron; So I decided to use it for fetching the RSS feeds in one of our web apps.

Create a new model tasks.py

Now web2py will notice the call to Scheduler and it will create the needed tables. You can now use the app admin to enter the first task.

With your new task in there; you are almost ready. You can now start a new web2py instance that will run the tasks for you:

The -D15 indicates Debug loglevel-> 15 is info\</>

Output

You will see your tasks being scheduled; it will look like this:

Some quick links

More info

You will find a test case and some code here