# Re: Email outside of Rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 19, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-email-outside-of-rails/109829 "2007-07-19T14:22:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mslagell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mslagell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mslagell)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-email-outside-of-rails/109829/1 "2007-07-19T14:22:37Z")
Yep, it absolutely works, at least on my dev box. I’ll have to go back and check but I thought the BillMonk guys mentioned something about building that part outside of Rails for performance reasons. I thought I would bring it up now while I’m still early enough into the project. ----- Original Message ---- From: Jacob A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 6:00:39 AM Subject: [Rails] Re: Email outside of Rails Mark wrote: > I’m working on an application that requires a process to send/receive > SMS messages (via email for now) outside of Rails. Right now I have > it working using the ActionMailer and ActiveRecord objects in my Rails > application. > > Is it better (quicker, more scalable) to read/write to the database > and send/receive outside of the ActiveRecord and ActionMailer models I > have setup in rails? Yes, you can make more scalable solutions outside of Rails. But… Is the current solution not working? Are you having performance issues? If not, why bother? – Cheers, - Jacob A. ---
**Author:** ![mslagell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mslagell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mslagell)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-email-outside-of-rails/109829/2 "2007-07-19T14:33:43Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > Yep, it absolutely works, at least on my dev box. > > I’ll have to go back and check but I thought the BillMonk guys mentioned > something about building that part outside of Rails for performance > reasons. You can replace any part of Rails for performance reasons. Rails is not built to be the highest performing solution on the market. The question is if you want to spend your time doing optimization or features. Personally I prefer features until a need for optimization shows up. > I thought I would bring it up now while I’m still early enough into the > project. Well, if you’re going to be handling big amounts of mail it might be worth going outside of Rails. Try doing some benchmarks and see what you get. Or it might be worth just getting more hardware. In the end you should do what you think is right 🙂 – Cheers, - Jacob A.