Greetings RoR:Talk,
I'm in the process of developing a web application for my company. It's a simple app developed to alleviate a portion of manual tasks for our administration department. It's core function will be to send an e- mail alert to a user (or distribution list) in our administration department when an item's warranty date is near expiration.
Now, what I have developed so far is that a CUSTOMER has many ITEMS. These ITEMS belong to a CUSTOMER. An ITEM has a warranty end date. This structure is already in place and functioning correctly.
The next step I would like to take is to implement an automated mailer. What I am unsure of is how to create a script of some sort that will run daily, figure out which customer's items are nearing expiration, then e-mail our internal user. I'd say a good time frame for when the e-mail is sent would be a week from expiration. That could change, but a week would be good for now. This gives our staff enough time to gather the required materials for the specific customer and contact them about renewal.
Can all of this be handled with ActionMailer?
- Mark
