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Allanon
Allanon

Reputation: 547

How to create recurring notifications in Rails from an admin interface?

I would like to create a new function in my survey app that lets users set daily, weekly etc. notifications about the stats of their surveys. Also I would like to let users delete these notifications if they don't need them anymore, or their survey ends.

It seems fairly simple to create a Notification model, which stores the necessary information about the notification, but how do I schedule it to send out the e-mail with the stats daily, weekly ( whatever the user sets ) etc.

Sure I can use delayed_job or resque and reschedule everytime but that doesn't seem like an elegant solution.

Any ideas how to make this happen in the most elegant, and efficient way?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 360

Answers (1)

Maciek Kocyła
Maciek Kocyła

Reputation: 71

I think you will find whenever gem useful

here's an example syntax for it: 

every 3.hours do
  runner "MyModel.some_process"
  rake "my:rake:task"
  command "/usr/bin/my_great_command"
end

every 1.day, :at => '4:30 am' do
  runner "MyModel.task_to_run_at_four_thirty_in_the_morning"
end

Upvotes: 2

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