Hi, We are in the process of rewriting our intranet applications in Ruby. We have one complete that requires an email invite being sent. We want to write another app that simply looks for unsent emails and sends them. This will be used by several ruby apps. How can we share this table(email details) across several Ruby apps? Thanks, GARY LACKERMAN Software Developer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
> How can we share this > table(email details) across several Ruby apps?Sharing a table is straight forward. If they are in the same database, you simply call the class methods for this utility functionality. If the table exists in another database, you add that database to the database.yml file. More importantly however, you want to avoid code duplication. You do not want to duplicate the code that looks for unsent emails in all your apps. You have several options. The first ones that come to mind are: 1. Write a utility rails app that does the looking for unsent emails and sending. All your other apps simply write to the table that stores these unsent emails. With this approach you can build views that allow you to see the queue, etc of all the emails, regardless of the app. 2. If you prefer to have the methods available in each app, then you want to look at the plugins facility in rails. You can write a plugin that gets used by all your apps. Then each of your apps gets the plugin from the same repository. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
LaughingNinja wrote:> Hi, > > We are in the process of rewriting our intranet applications in Ruby. > We have one complete that requires an email invite being sent. We want > to write another app that simply looks for unsent emails and sends > them. This will be used by several ruby apps. How can we share this > table(email details) across several Ruby apps? > > Thanks, > GARY LACKERMAN > Software Developer >You could create a message queue in a shared database of some sort. All applications insert their "to send" emails into the message queue (database table) and a regular job starts up and reads in the details and tries to send them. If it manages to send it, it cleans up for this record (i.e, deletes the item from the table and/ or informs someone). If it doesn''t manage to send the email, it increments some sort of "retry count" in the database and waits again. If a message fails to go after a certain number of tries, it simply marks the message as undeliverable and removes it from the message queue to a "failed items" database. Now, I wonder if there is a message queue implementation in Ruby that does this? Cheers, Mohit. 1/28/2009 | 11:50 AM. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---