Best cron job method for email notifications?

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There are so many ways to do cron jobs in Rails (Backgroundrb, script/ runner, etc.) but I am wondering what would be the best to use in production, just for sending out email/SMS notifications? For example, an email automatically gets sent a day before the due date of a project milestone.

Thanks for the help!

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I've tried BackgroundDRB but wasn't too pleased with it on large-scale application, it runs slowly, but on small-sized it works just fine.

The solution that works best for me is having rake tasks called from cron jobs.