hey everyone i want to send mails by scheduling the time dynamically.lets say in a single table i have all the employee logs who came at different timings.they are from different locations and departments. i want to send mails to different mails ids according to there location to there HR. can i do this with cron job.
thanks in advance
I’ve seen this cast
http://railscasts.com/episodes/164-cron-in-ruby
and it has its revised episode, maybe it helps, or just go to see the documentation of the whenever gem
JavierQ.
A better approach I believe is to use redis/resque to queue the emails to be sent -- and then use resque-scheduler to schedule the jobs to run whenever you want them to run.
There are a bunch of reasons why redis is a better approach to queuing work in general, so I'd look into this.
What you want is:
- redis installed on the machine
- The gems:
resque resque-mailer reque-scheduler
Here's a pointer to the current set of resque plugins -- you'll find the scheduler and mailer plugins described there. https://github.com/defunkt/resque/wiki/plugins
Good luck.