How can I send a notification to an email address without having a database record for the recipient?

[straversi]

If I do:

MyNotifier.with(record: thing).deliver('[email protected]')

I get an exception about how strings don't have base classes.

If I do:

MyNotifier.with(record: thing).deliver(User.new(email: '[email protected]'))

to try and get around that, I get a null value in column "recipient_id" of relation "noticed_notifications" violates not-null constraint because the User is not saved in the database.

Is there any way to do this, or am I out of luck here? Thank you!

[excid3]

In this case, you don't have a recipient object to deliver to, so you will want to use a bulk delivery.

I would use MyNotifier.with(record: thing, email: "[email protected]").deliver and use a Bulk Delivery method to send the email. You'll have to create a custom bulk email delivery method that sends the mailer as well.

[straversi]

Ahhh, so smart. Thank you!

[t2]

@straversi curious what your custom bulk delivery method looks like? I'm facing the same need.