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Komarzer
Komarzer

Reputation: 627

Rails send mail to a user every day

I'm trying to use whenever gem (or maybe there's a better solution ?) I've been trying to make this work, but I'm not sure if I'm doing it right.

Here is my schedule.rb :

every :day, :at => '12pm' do # Use any day of the week or :weekend, :weekday
  runner "UserMailer.daily_mail"
end

My UserMailer :

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

And in my user.rb :

  def send_daily_mail
    UserMailer.daily_mail(self).deliver
  end

The thing is, I already have mail activation in my project, which is working (I can test it in heroku). The app sends a mail on creation of an account, so in UserController, there is :

    def create
      @user = User.new(user_params)
      if @user.save
        @user.send_activation_email
        flash[:info] = "Veuillez contrôler votre boîte mail pour activer votre compte."
        redirect_to root_url
      else
        render 'new'
      end
    end

But here, it sends an email after an action. But If I want the mail to be sent with whenever, what is left to do to make it work, and how can I test it since I'm not in production (and I think whenever doesn't work with heroku) ?

The endgame would be to have a checkbox in the user preferences, and he would be able to check daily, weekly or monthly updates, and the mails would be sent accordingly.

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2599

Answers (1)

RAJ
RAJ

Reputation: 9747

You should create a rake task something like:

desc "Send email to users"

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

In config/schedule.rb:

every :day, :at => '12pm' do
  rake "email_sender"
end

Upvotes: 4

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