Hey all. I''m creating an app that that involves sending emails at a specified date-time. I only have one model and it has a "sendat" (:datetime) column. I need to send an email to an email address (also in the model) at the "sendat" time. I''m not sure how to do this. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
On Oct 6, 2007, at 16:31 , David wrote:> I need to send an email to an email address (also in the > model) at the "sendat" time.Run a script/runner via cron job that checks for emails that need to be sent and sends them. I''m thinking something along the lines of "send emails with sendat < now that haven''t been sent". Michael Glaesemann grzm seespotcode net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Heres my method in my Item model:
***
def self.send_expired
items = Item.find(:all, :conditions => ["time <= ?",
Time.now])
for item in items
email = item.email
content = item.content
time = item.time.strftime("%b %d %I:%M %p")
begin
Notifier.deliver_item_email(email, content, time)
rescue Exception => e
logger.error("Error: e.message")
else
Item.find(item.id).destroy
end
end
end
**
Here''s my Notifier class:
**
class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base
def item_email(email,content,time)
recipients email
from "notifier-t1rxLZ7CIXjQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org"
subject "You are being notified!"
body :content => content, :time => time
end
end
**
Basically, the self.send_expired method grabs all the Item objects
that have a time column before the current time, sends the item via
email, and deletes it from the db.
The first time I ran "script/runner -e development
''Item.send_expired''" it worked fine and it sent all the
items that had
expired. I then created another item object that had a time 5 minutes
after I saved it to the db. When that time passed (in other words,
when the item "expired"), no email was sent and the item remained in
the db. I guess script/runner only called the ''send_expired''
method
when I started it.
I guess I don''t really understand how script/runner works. I thought
it continuously calls the function, so as soon as an item expires, it
is sent via email and destroyed. Could someone please explain?
~ David
On Oct 6, 5:38 pm, Michael Glaesemann
<g...-RYEyMNgfJnVLeUupdtUFmg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> On Oct 6, 2007, at 16:31 , David wrote:
>
> > I need to send an email to an email address (also in the
> > model) at the "sendat" time.
>
> Run ascript/runnervia cron job that checks for emails that need to
> be sent and sends them. I''m thinking something along the lines of
> "send emails with sendat < now that haven''t been
sent".
>
> Michael Glaesemann
> grzm seespotcode net
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On 10/11/07, David <junksmart-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> I guess I don''t really understand how script/runner works. I thought > it continuously calls the function, so as soon as an item expires, it > is sent via email and destroyed. Could someone please explain?No, script/runner just runs your code once and then exits. It doesn''t do anything magic. Michael suggested you run script/runner periodically from cron (every 5 minutes, or whatever frequency you need). I think that''s the best solution. You could also make your runner script check for mails, then sleep for a while, then check again, in an endless loop. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---