Laravel “schedule:work” Command

Laravel has an Ideas Github area where you can use the issue tracker to propose your ideas for future changes to the framework, and a few weeks ago Brian Dillingham threw out the idea to improve how schedule:run works locally. Mainly when you want to test your schedules without dealing with CRON locally.

From this discussion, Illia Sakovich submitted a pull request to add a brand new “schedule:work” command and it’s now merged and in the latest Laravel release.

#schedule:work

The new schedule:work command mimics an every minute CRON Tab and calls schedule:run directly every minute, and here is the code that drives it:

public function handle()
{
    $this->info('Schedule worker started successfully.');
 
    while (true) {
        if (Carbon::now()->second === 0) {
            $this->call('schedule:run');
        }
 
        sleep(1);
    }
}

It’s simple and pretty smart. Basically it keeps running and each minute when the seconds are 0 it fires schedule:run. Then once you are done with your testing just cancel it on the terminal with Ctrl+c.

This will be a big help for testing all your scheduled commands locally.