Please update docs and provide a guide how to run CLI commands that use RR features.

[GrzegorzDrozd]

Hello,

I cannot find a clear information or guide how to run my code in CLI and allow it to use features like opentelemetry (sending metrics from CLI commands), setting/reading values from KV or for example using Locks.
How can I do that?

Thanks and have a great day!

[rustatian]

Hey @GrzegorzDrozd 👋, have you looked at the docs.roadrunner.dev ?

[rustatian]

Here you may find docs: https://docs.roadrunner.dev/docs/plugins/service

[GrzegorzDrozd]

OK, now I see.
So there is no way to run ad-hoc code? I need to define service for everything?
Also service is started with RR? There is no way to run it daily at specific hour? Like in cron?

[rustatian]

Sorry for the long response, I needed to travel back to my PC 😄
You know, RR is not a cron replacement. It has some useful features to repeatedly run something, but it is better to use cron. You may also try the temporal.io plugin (php-sdk), since we support cron in full here, but that can be overengineering for a simple script execution.

[GrzegorzDrozd]

Yeah, I know that RR is not a cron replacement. :)
I am evaluating if we should use RR of Franken when migrating our legacy application. We do have quite a lot of crons and workers, and if we decide to use RR (and its features) then running code from CLI is a must for us. With services, we can achieve that.
So now that this is clear, maybe a documentation update is something that is needed? To answer questions like I had here.

[rustatian]

RR offers many more features, like jobs/temporal.io native integration, while having the same http3/auto-https-certificates-generation/103-early-hints/etc.
Could you please clarify what is missing from the docs (or maybe you can create a PR)? Because atm, all cli commands are present, also all existing plugins are described in the docs.