ar_mailer

drbrain@segment7.net (Eric Hodel) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:39:00 -0700

Rubyforge Project: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rctools

Documentation: http://dev.robotcoop.com/Tools/ar_mailer

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Even deliviring email to the local machine may take too long when you have to send hundreds of messages. ar_mailer allows you to store messages into the database for later delivery by a separate process, ar_sendmail.

Installing ar_mailer

Just install the gem:

$ sudo gem install ar_mailer

Converting to ar_mailer

Go to your Rails project:

$ cd your_rails_project

Create a new migration:

$ ar_sendmail --create-migration

You'll need to redirect this into a file. If you want a different name provide the —table-name option. Create a new model:

$ ar_sendmail --create-model

You'll need to redirect this into a file. If you want a different name provide the —table-name option. Change your email classes to inherit from ActionMailer::ARMailer instead of ActionMailer::Base:

--- app/model/emailer.rb.orig   2006-08-10 13:16:33.000000000 -0700
+++ app/model/emailer.rb        2006-08-10 13:16:43.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-class Emailer < ActionMailer::Base
+class Emailer < ActionMailer::ARMailer

def comment_notification(comment)
  from comment.author.email

Edit config/environments/production.rb and set the delivery agent:

$ grep delivery_method config/environments/production.rb
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :activerecord

Run ar_sendmail:

$ ar_sendmail

You can also run ar_sendmail from cron with -o, or as a daemon with -d. See ar_sendmail -h for full details.

"ar_mailer" by Eric Hodel

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:27:46 -0700

Yes, you’ve got to require ‘action_mailer/ar_mailer’ after the config block, otherwise the paths don’t get set correctly. You can set the mailer in the config block though, the initializer doesn’t care.

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Installing ar_mailer

Converting to ar_mailer

"ar_mailer" by Eric Hodel