# Sending Automated Email Reminders?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-automated-email-reminders/107842>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 26, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-automated-email-reminders/107842 "2007-06-26T19:27:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![adistarmid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@adistarmid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adistarmid)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-automated-email-reminders/107842/1 "2007-06-26T19:27:07Z")

</div>

If I wanted to send periodic email reminders, would a periodic sleep  
interval work fine (e.g. sleep xxxxx), or would I need a task plugin  
like BackgroundDRB?