Rails - Jul 2008 - better to use ruby to send email instead of rails context?

If my web app needs to send email notifications that are not time
sensitive (e.g. they can wait a few minutes), do you think it''s better
for my web app to put the message on a queue or in the db for another
program (e.g. plain ruby) to load up and send the email?  I know I can
still send them asynchronously by putting them on a queue and then
having a background process load up the rails context to send them, but
I don''t know much about this and am wondering if I do that, would it be
that much more scalable to just have plain ruby or any other standalone
simple custom mailer program written in Java or whatever doing the
emailing?
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> If my web app needs to send email notifications that are not time
> sensitive (e.g. they can wait a few minutes), do you think it''s
better
> for my web app to put the message on a queue or in the db for another
> program (e.g. plain ruby) to load up and send the email?  I know I can
> still send them asynchronously by putting them on a queue and then
> having a background process load up the rails context to send them,  
> but
> I don''t know much about this and am wondering if I do that, would
it
> be
> that much more scalable to just have plain ruby or any other  
> standalone
> simple custom mailer program written in Java or whatever doing the
> emailing?
You may want to look at ar_mailer

http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2006/08/15/ar_mailer

-philip

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