On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 21:43 +0100, Ed W wrote:
> I have a bunch of real uses for BackgroundDrb, but I also a very simple
> need to delay sending an email for about 5 seconds after a rails action
> completes. Basically I need to leave time for the DB to commit and sync
> to the slaves before the email can be sent
>
> Is BackgroundDb the right tool for this job? Any other suggestions on
> ways to implement this? (I have seen suggestions to create a new thread
> and run the mailer from that thread, but it's not clear that
> actionmailer is actually thread safe..?)
>
> I'm thinking just to fire up worker threads which pause for a length of
> time before sending the email - is this likely the best solution? Any
> other suggestions?
you can use :
add_timer(5) { send_delayed_mail(mail_content_id) }
It will send all mails delayed by 5 seconds also, you should not use
sleep in your code to simulate "pause". sleep doesn't work well with
nonblocking IO reactor loops.
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