Mail Sauce Description: Mail Sauce is the beginning of a distributed email newsletter system which utilizes: Nanite - http://github.com/ezmobius/nanite Tenjin - http://www.kuwata-lab.com/tenjin/ Redis - http://code.google.com/p/redis/ EventMachine - http://eventmachine.rubyforge.org Usage: Start the mapper: jjackson@sfqload01 /systems/mail_injection $ ./start_mapper.rb Start RabbitMQ: root@sfqload01 ~ # rabbitmq-server Start Redis: jjackson@sfqload01 /systems/mail_injection $ redis-server Start an agent or ten: jjackson@sfqload01 /systems/mail_injection $ ../../bin/nanite-agent --token a -l debug -h sfqload01 --single-threaded --prefetch 1 Start Alice and Wonderland: rabbitmq@sfqload01 /alice $ ./start.sh -alice rabbithost "rabbit@sfqload01" -setcookie `cat /var/lib/rabbitmq/.erlang.cookie` * Note that alice must run as the user rabbitmq. Send a list: jjackson@sfqload01 /systems/mail_injection $ ./send.rb -l edu_spouse_v_half2a At the moment sending a list is specific to my environment. You can see what is going on in send.rb, but basically it is pulling a list down from mysql and then splitting that into a determined size which is issued to Nanite.push. This is very much a first pass at things, lots of bad code, just trying to get an idea into some code and learn a bit more about the tech that im using to build this thing out of. I have run into a few issues that happen in certain situations which i will discuss on my blog (url below) that may determine whether the technology used in this tool makes sense for you. Hit me up at: Write up on mail-sauce-em: http://dotrb.com/blogs/55/posts/141 Contact: http://dotrb.com and ping Jason Jackson (me) or the site admin (me).