Smtp and Threads

Ruby
1

Hi,
I have a method sendEmail that is sending emails correctly and i decided
to call the method inside a Thread so I don’t have to wait until the
email is sent but I don’t know why it is not working, this is the code:

require ‘net/smtp’

def sendEmail(to, subject, message)
to=to.to_s()
to.gsub!(" “,”“)
to.gsub!(”;“,”,“)
smtp = Net::SMTP.new(‘smtp.gmail.com’, 587)
smtp.enable_starttls
smtp.start(“smtp.gmail.com”,“[email protected]”,“mypwd”,:login)
to.split(”,").each {|email|
emailMessage = "From: myemail [email protected]
To: <#{email.to_s()}>
Subject: #{subject.to_s()}
Content-Type: text/html;

#{message.to_s()}
"
smtp.send_message(emailMessage.to_s(),“[email protected]”,
email.to_s())

}
end
end

t = Thread.new do
sendEmail(“[email protected]”,“mysubject”,“mybody”)
end

Thanks in advance

2

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Mario R. [email protected] wrote:

to.gsub!(";",",")

"

Your application (process) ends before the threads completes. I tried
your
program, it seems you have an extra end. (sniper I ran :
gist:9341b8684c56dccd3513 · GitHub )

I made it to wait if the thread is alive, after a while it send its
mail. I
am not completely sure of it myself, but i guess the main program must
continue to be active. As the threads seems to die, as soon as the
program
end.

I would suggest that you use a library for background processing rather
than implementing threads on your own, as such libraries would have a
hook
to alert you incase they fail to complete.

regards,

Harisankar P S
https://twitter.com/coder_hsps | http://tech.hsps.in

3

On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 14:59 +0200, Mario R. wrote:

to.gsub!(";",",")

"

Thanks in advance

look at thread join

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4

Thread.join is what you’re missing, although since you’re only spawning
a single Thread, you’re not really gaining anything there. You also set
“t” as the Thread, but you don’t do anything with it.

Given the way you lay out your email body, you might want to look up
Heredocs as well.

5

Thanks
yep it seems the problem was the execution finish before finishing the
thread but in production is not going to end since it is a sinatra
script runnning all the time :slight_smile:
thanks again