I am on Heroku with a custom domain, and I have the Redis add-on. I need help understanding how to create a background worker for email notifications. Users can inbox message each other, and I would like to send a email notification to the user for each new message received. I have the notifications working in development, but I am not good with creating background jobs which is required for Heroku, otherwise the server would timeout.
Messages Controller:
def create
@recipient = User.find(params[:user])
current_user.send_message(@recipient, params[:body], params[:subject])
flash[:notice] = "Message has been sent!"
if request.xhr?
render :json => {:notice => flash[:notice]}
else
redirect_to :conversations
end
end
User model:
def mailboxer_email(object)
if self.no_email
email
else
nil
end
end
Mailboxer.rb:
Mailboxer.setup do |config|
#Configures if you applications uses or no the email sending for Notifications and Messages
config.uses_emails = false
#Configures the default from for the email sent for Messages and Notifications of Mailboxer
config.default_from = "[email protected]"
#Configures the methods needed by mailboxer
config.email_method = :mailboxer_email
config.name_method = :name
#Configures if you use or not a search engine and which one are you using
#Supported enignes: [:solr,:sphinx]
config.search_enabled = false
config.search_engine = :sphinx
end
Sidekiq is definitely the way to go with Heroku. I don't think mailboxer supports background configuration out of the box. Thankfully, it's still really easy with sidekiq's queueing process.
gem 'sidekiq' to your gemfile and run bundle.app/workers/message_worker.rb.class MessageWorker
include Sidekiq::Worker
def perform(sender_id, recipient_id, body, subject)
sender = User.find(sender_id)
recipient = User.find(recipient_id)
sender.send_message(recipient, body, subject)
end
end
Remove: current_user.send_message(@recipient, params[:body], params[:subject])
Add: MessageWorker.perform_async(current_user.id, @recipient.id, params[:body], params[:subject])
Note: You should never pass workers ActiveRecord objects. That's why I setup this method to pass the User ids and look them up in the worker's perform method, instead of the entire object.
Finally, restart your server and run bundle exec sidekiq. Now your app should be sending the email background.
When you deploy, you will need a separate dyno for the worker which should look like this: worker: bundle exec sidekiq. You will also need Heroku's redis add-on.
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