External Scripts on Meteor?

On the project that I am working on currently has a few Ruby scripts that need to run at certain times. The way I’ve been running them seem a bit hacky, and I wanted to make sure that I was executing the scripts the best way I could.

The way I am running it is using Node’s ‘child_process’ package, and running the script as if it I was in the command line (ruby )

Is there another way to run scripts in Meteor that is not so brute force-y?

Thank you!