sidekiq-mailer

Sidekiq::Mailer

This gem lets you send mail in the background using Sidekiq.

Installation

Add the gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'sidekiq-mailer'

If you're using Bundler 1.0, you'll need to tell Bundler the library file name:

gem 'sidekiq-mailer', :require => 'sidekiq/mailer'

Usage

Install into your mailer:

class BackgroundMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  extend Sidekiq::Mailer

  # optional queue name
  # queue :mail

  def send_mail(record)
    mail :to => record.email
  end
end

Queue mail jobs using the DelayedJob background mail style:

BackgroundMailer.delay.send_mail(record)

To actually your mail, run sidekiq. If you set your mail queue name to "mail", run sidekiq -q mail instead.

Caveats

Right now, it only expects a single ActiveRecord instance as the argument passed to whatever email method you call. This could become a problem in the future, but it's working for me. If it's a problem for you, see the next section. :)

Contributing

Please do, pull requests happily discussed and accepted.