Effectively, yeah. Thinking from the RoR world something like sidekiq or delayed_jobs could do the same thing.
Re:Introducing the Uber Request Endpoint
by toomuchtodo on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @12:42AM
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Should definitely work. I use a cron job in the winter to kick off the remote start on my wife's car through Viper/Directed's JSON API.
(cron repeats, at is for one time jobs)