bulk email using send grid in rails

Question

Context:

I need to send bulk-email using send grid in a rails app. I will be sending emails to maybe around 300 subscribers. I have read that it can be accomplished using

headers["X-SMTPAPI"] = { :to => array_of_recipients }.to_json

I have tried following that.

The following is my ActionMailer:

class NewJobMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  default from: "[email protected]"

  def new_job_post(subscribers)
    @greeting = "Hi"
    headers['X-SMTPAPI'] = { :to => subscribers.to_a }.to_json
    mail(
    :to => "[email protected]",
    :subject => "New Job Posted!"
    )

  end

end

I call this mailer method from a controller

..
   @subscribers = Subscriber.where(activated: true)
   NewJobMailer.new_job_post(@subscribers).deliver
..

The config for send-grid is specified in the config/production.rb file and is correct, since I am able to send out account activation emails.

Problem:

The app works fine without crashing anywhere, but the emails are not being sent out. I am guessing the headers config is not being passed along ? How can I correct this ?

UPDATE:

I checked for email activity in the send grid dashboard. Here is a snapshot of one of the dropped emails:

Answer 1

You are grabbing an array of ActiveRecord objects with

@subscribers = Subscriber.where(activated: true)

and passing that into the smtpapi header. You need to pull out the email addresses of those ActiveRecord objects.

Depending on what you called the email field, this can be done with

headers['X-SMTPAPI'] = { :to => subscribers.map(&:email) }.to_json