Send mail every day

Marco Dias

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Jul 6, 2015, 10:51:58 AM7/6/15

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Hi,

I need to implement a notification feature in my project. My user model has a daily, weekly and monthly booleans fields. I already have a UserMailer that sends mail when I create an account, or for password resetting.

What I want is my app to send a mail each day or week or month, depending on what the user chose.

So I've installed Whenever gem, and here is my schedule.rb :

every :day, :at => '12pm' do # Use any day of the week or :weekend, 
     :weekday rake "email_sender" 
end

My rake task :

desc "Send email to users"

task :email_sender => :environment do |_, args|
    User.find_each do |user|
        UserMailer.daily_mail(user).deliver if user.daily == true
    end
end

My UserMailer :

def daily_mail(user) 
     @user = user mail to: user.email, subject: "Mail journalier" 
end

The thing is, I don't know if I did right, and how can I test this, since I'm not in development ?

I did a crontab -l and I get this :

# Begin Whenever generated tasks for: store

0 12 * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /Users/Marco/Documents/TBProject && RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake email_sender --silent'

# End Whenever generated tasks for: store



# Begin Whenever generated tasks for: /Users/Marco/Documents/TBProject/config/schedule.rb

0 12 * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /Users/Marco/Documents/TBProject && RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake email_sender --silent'

# End Whenever generated tasks for: /Users/Marco/Documents/TBProject/config/schedule.rb

If you could help me please

Marco Dias

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Jul 6, 2015, 2:46:58 PM7/6/15

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Small update

I tried to run the command rake email_sender in my terminal, and I got this :

[1m[36mUser Load (0.9ms)[0m  [1mSELECT  "users".* FROM "users"  ORDER BY "users"."id" ASC LIMIT 1000[0m
DEPRECATION WARNING: `#deliver` is deprecated and will be removed in Rails 5. Use `#deliver_now` to deliver immediately or `#deliver_later` to deliver through Active Job. (called from block (2 levels) in <top (required)> at /Users/Marco/Documents/TBProject/lib/tasks/rake1.rake:5)
  Rendered user_mailer/daily_mail.html.erb within layouts/mailer (1.2ms)
  Rendered user_mailer/daily_mail.text.erb within layouts/mailer (0.2ms)

UserMailer#daily_mail: processed outbound mail in 189.6ms

Sent mail to example@railstutorial.org (8.6ms)
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:24:29 +0200
From: admin@fluxio.com
To: example@railstutorial.org
Message-ID: <559ab9cd79f6_193e3fc21dc6020412765@Marcos-MacBook-Air.local.mail>
Subject: Mail journalier
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="--==_mimepart_559ab9cd64da_193e3fc21dc6020412690";
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

----==_mimepart_559ab9cd64da_193e3fc21dc6020412690
Content-Type: text/plain;
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Daily Mail

----==_mimepart_559ab9cd64da_193e3fc21dc6020412690
Content-Type: text/html;
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<html>
  <body>
    <h1>Daily Mail</h1>
  </body>
</html>

----==_mimepart_559ab9cd64da_193e3fc21dc6020412690--

DEPRECATION WARNING: `#deliver` is deprecated and will be removed in Rails 5. Use `#deliver_now` to deliver immediately or `#deliver_later` to deliver through Active Job. (called from block (2 levels) in <top (required)> at /Users/Marco/Documents/TBProject/lib/tasks/rake1.rake:5)
  Rendered user_mailer/daily_mail.html.erb within layouts/mailer (0.0ms)
  Rendered user_mailer/daily_mail.text.erb within layouts/mailer (0.0ms)

UserMailer#daily_mail: processed outbound mail in 15.2ms

Sent mail to test@test123.ch (2.7ms)
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:24:29 +0200
From: admin@fluxio.com
To: test@test123.ch
Message-ID: <559ab9cdd27c_193e3fc21dc602041295@Marcos-MacBook-Air.local.mail>
Subject: Mail journalier
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="--==_mimepart_559ab9cdc753_193e3fc21dc60204128e8";
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

----==_mimepart_559ab9cdc753_193e3fc21dc60204128e8
Content-Type: text/plain;
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Daily Mail

----==_mimepart_559ab9cdc753_193e3fc21dc60204128e8
Content-Type: text/html;
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<html>
  <body>
    <h1>Daily Mail</h1>
  </body>
</html>

----==_mimepart_559ab9cdc753_193e3fc21dc60204128e8--

So it sent mails to the only two users that had daily == true, so my method work. But is the scheduled job working ?

Hassan Schroeder

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Jul 6, 2015, 2:56:42 PM7/6/15

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On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Marco Dias <dias...@gmail.com> wrote:

> So it sent mails to the only two users that had daily == true, so my method
> work. But is the scheduled job working ?

It's just a cron job. Change the target time to e.g. five minutes from
now, go get a cup of coffee and see what's happened when you get
back :-)

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Marco Dias

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It doesn't seem to work in development mode. How can I do that ?

Marco Dias

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I did : whenever --update-crontab --set environment=development

And it worked in development, I could see in development.log that it sent the mail each 5 minutes. Good. Do I have to change this line and write environment=production or it'll work like this if the project is put on a server ?

Colin Law

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On 7 July 2015 at 10:18, Marco Dias <dias...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It doesn't seem to work in development mode. How can I do that ?

By specifying RAILS_ENV=development in your cron task instead of production.

Colin

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Marco Dias

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Thanks, I updated my answer :

I did : whenever --update-crontab --set environment=development

And it worked in development, I could see in development.log that it sent the mail each 5 minutes. Good. Do I have to change this line and write environment=production or it'll work like this if the project is put on a server ?

Walter Lee Davis

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Jul 7, 2015, 6:07:27 PM7/7/15

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On Jul 7, 2015, at 5:32 AM, Marco Dias <dias...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, I updated my answer :
>
> I did : whenever --update-crontab --set environment=development
>
> And it worked in development, I could see in development.log that it sent the mail each 5 minutes. Good. Do I have to change this line and write environment=production or it'll work like this if the project is put on a server ?

You'll have to shell into the server and run the command on the server with the environment=production flag. Whenever makes a crontab entry for your job, and it has to do that in the actual crontab on the server, not on your dev machine.

Walter

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Saeideh S.

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Hi I am from Iran S. I love Ruby One on Instagram and his goofy menu
fake page I just want a way to connect with Ruby Just once I want to
talk to me. You know how difficult the situation in Iran pleas pleas
pleas

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Colin Law

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On 20 January 2016 at 11:24, Saeideh S. <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi I am from Iran S. I love Ruby One on Instagram and his goofy menu
> fake page I just want a way to connect with Ruby Just once I want to
> talk to me. You know how difficult the situation in Iran pleas pleas
> pleas

It is best to start a new thread for a new question, rather than
tagging it on the end of an old one. However, it is not clear exactly
what it is that you want.

Colin

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Dave Aronson

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Colin Law <cla...@gmail.com> wrote:

> it is not clear exactly what it is that you want.

I Googled the object of Saeideh's desire, and at least on Instagram it
seems to be a fashion designer. So, I'm thinking the post was simply
spam, attracted by the name of our language. (That's why I'm not
repeating the Instagram account name here.)

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