Best practices for email delivery in production

Rails
1

In pre Rails 3 world I was using ar_sendmail to queue up emails. Then
I would setup a cron job every few minutes to deliver the emails. But
that doesn’t work perfectly in Rails 3. What is the best way to
deliver emails in production environment in Rails 3?

2

Have a look at running some kind of delayed job queue - I use Resque
normally, which I think comes from GitHub. With Resque, and ResqueMailer
(another gem) you can simply “include Resque::Mailer” in your mailers to
have them automatically queued for delivery. Hope that helps.

3

We just set up a daemon
(#129 Custom Daemon - RailsCasts), which is the same
idea, but it runs inside your app’s environment. To send an email from
our app, we just add a row to a table. Then the daemon wakes up every
minute, clears out that table, and sends the email.

4

Is there a way to use beanstalkd and stalker to replicate ar_sendmail
functionality?

5

Hi Amy, you might want to try SimpleWorker at
http://www.simpleworker.com ,
great for sending emails (or doing anything in batch) and very easy to
use,
no setup required.

Here’s a sample email worker:
http://support.simpleworker.com/kb/sample-workers/emailworker-send-emails-in-the-background-or-schedule-for-later

Travis