[LRUG] Sending a newsletter from rails

[Joel Chippindale]

Kevin,
If you do go down this route then I recommend you use edge BackgrounDRb and
packet v 0.1.6 (see
http://gnufied.org/2008/05/21/bleeding-edge-version-of-backgroundrb-for-better-memory-usage/)
because the current version of BackgrounDRb seems to intermittently hang on
longer running tasks (at least in the environments we have used it in).

J.

2008/5/22 Kevin Fullerton <kevin.fullerton at shotgun-suicide.co.uk>:

> Joel Chippindale wrote:
> > I am working on a rails app which needs to be able to send a newsletter
> > out to tens of thousands of subscribers. I would ideally like the same
> > system to be able to handle taking individual emails (e.g. password
> > reminders) out of the request/response loop.
> >
> > Has anyone on the list tackled this problem before? If so what did you
> > opt for and how did it work out?
>
> I'm thinking about a similar system at the moment, though looking at
> sending mail to hundreds of subscribers, but potentially multiple times
> a day - my thought was to build up the template of the message and pass
> that along with all the individual contact details to a background DRb
> process, so that the main Rails app wasn't blocked by the mailing
> process.  Unfortunately I haven't got too far down the road of seeing if
> that's a viable, reliable way of doing it (handling SMTP errors,
> bounce-backs etc.)
>
> Kevin
>
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