# How to send an email on a particular date **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 17, 2008, 9:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-send-an-email-on-a-particular-date/132130 "2008-03-17T09:44:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dhaval](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@dhaval](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dhaval)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 9:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-send-an-email-on-a-particular-date/132130/1 "2008-03-17T09:44:48Z")
Hello people, I am trying to create a application where a person can set a reminder. for example a person may choose a date on which he wants the email to be sent to his email id, on submitting this data a cron job should start which would run daily and would deliver the email on the particular day at particular time. How can i achieve this? any help would be appreciated… Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![dhaval](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@dhaval](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dhaval)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 10:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-send-an-email-on-a-particular-date/132130/2 "2008-03-17T10:24:23Z")
Thanks for the suggestion fredrick…Can you please tell me is it possible to do this using unix cronjob?? or do i need to use only a plugin backgroundrb or rubycron and lots of others??I wanted to do something like a file which is a .rb file inside crontab directory and then daemon would be created which would run this script… Somethig like this…I am not very sure how you can do this but do u have any idea of doing it like this?? On Mar 17, 1:57 pm, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![dhaval](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@dhaval](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dhaval)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 9:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-send-an-email-on-a-particular-date/132130/3 "2008-03-17T09:57:53Z")
On Mar 17, 8:43 am, dhaval [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hello people, I am trying to create a application where a person can > set a reminder. for example a person may choose a date on which he > wants the email to be sent to his email id, on submitting this data a > cron job should start which would run daily and would deliver the > email on the particular day at particular time. How can i achieve > this? any help would be appreciated… > Thanks in advance. Well it’s going to need to run a hell of a lot more often than daily. You’re going to want some sort of background process (cronjob, backgroundrb, long running ruby script, etc…). Then you’ll probably have a table with what needs to be sent and when. Whenever your background process wakes up you just check whether anything needs sending now. Fred ---
**Author:** ![dhaval](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@dhaval](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dhaval)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-send-an-email-on-a-particular-date/132130/4 "2008-03-17T11:09:15Z")
On 17 Mar 2008, at 09:23, dhaval wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion fredrick…Can you please tell me is it > possible to do this using unix cronjob?? or do i need to use only a > plugin backgroundrb or rubycron and lots of others??I wanted to do > something like a file which is a .rb file inside crontab directory and > then daemon would be created which would run this script… Somethig > like this…I am not very sure how you can do this but do u have any > idea of doing it like this?? Well cron will quite happily run ruby scripts if that’s what you’re asking Fred ---
**Author:** ![dhaval](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@dhaval](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dhaval)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-send-an-email-on-a-particular-date/132130/5 "2008-03-17T16:15:17Z")
Thanks for that. I actually meant that On Mar 17, 3:08 pm, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)