For emails, the simplest way is to set up a local MTA (postfix, for instance) and send the mail to that. The MTA takes care of the hard part delivering the mail as needed.
For more general things, there are some gems that let you set up cron- like tasks, or you can just call a rake task from plain old cron. --Matt Jones On Jun 6, 8:23 pm, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Rails community, > > I would like to get some advices - I am writing a web application > that will be sending some emails and execute other long running tasks. > > Some of these tasks may take some time and I do not want the user > experience to be impacted. I would appreciate any pointers on advices > on these areas: > > * how to send emails without making the user wait > * how to execute long running tasks > * The best way to do periodic cron jobs in Rails > > Thank you for your help in advance. > > Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
