Fetcher Daemon Questions - receive?

I’m starting to play with Slantwise.com’s Fetcher to process emails via
a Ruby script.

Here’s the basic code lifted from their plugin:

class MailFetcherDaemon < Daemon::Base

  @config = YAML.load_file("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/mail.yml")
  @config = @config[RAILS_ENV].to_options

  @sleep_time = @config.delete(:sleep_time) || 10

  def self.start
    puts "Starting MailFetcherDaemon"
    # Add your own receiver object below
    @fetcher = Fetcher.create({:receiver => nil}.merge(@config))

    loop do
      puts "checking mail"
      @fetcher.fetch
      sleep(@sleep_time)
    end
  end

  def self.stop
    puts "Stopping MailFetcherDaemon"
  end

end

MailFetcherDaemon.daemonize

my question is about receiver. According to the docs, such as they are,
receiver is a class that is subclassed from ActiveMailer::Base. it needs
to have a ‘receive’ method. Fine. I’ve created a class called Recipient,
it lives in app>models, and the mail.yml file uses it to find out the
name of the class that is the receiver. When I start the daemon, it
seems to start without complaint.

Here’s recipient.rb:

class Recipient < ActionMailer::Base

  def receive(msg)
    "got that"
  end

end

When running, the loop, on finding emails in the designated account is
supposed to pass them one at a time to the receive method, and then
delete the message.

The messages get deleted, so the daemon is running, and the login/pass
to the account are in the mail.yml file, so that’s getting read. But the
puts “got that” never appears in the console when I run it there on
localhost.

What am I doing wrong???

Driving me nuts.

Did you ever figure out how to get up and running with this fetcher
daemon??

I’m trying to get it working and so far, no luck…

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/178498