Best rails solution for a mailer that runs every minute

Question

I have an application that checks a database every minute for any emails that are supposed to be sent out at that time. I was thinking about making this a rake task that wou

Answer 1

One really simple method would be to have a script that does..

while true do
    check_and_send_messages()
    sleep 60
end

..which means you are not constantly respawning the Rails environment.

Obviously it has various flaws, but also has some benefits (for example, with your 1-Rake-per-minute, it the Rake task takes more than one minute, Rake will be running multiple times at once)

Also, the Railscasts episodes Rake in Background, Starling and Workling, and Custom Daemon might give you some ideas (they are describing exactly this task)