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    copied!<p>I have a <strong>Document</strong> model with a string column <strong>access</strong> and a <strong>User</strong> model with a string column <strong>team</strong>. In a <strong>Document</strong> I can enter an array of items for <strong>access</strong> such as "staff, sales, manager". Meanwhile, a <strong>User</strong> has only <strong>one</strong> item under <strong>team</strong>.</p> <p>I am trying to send emails to specific Users based on whether or not for each <strong>user.team</strong> is included in the array for <strong>Document.access</strong>.</p> <p><strong>For example</strong> if <code>Document.access = "sales, management"</code>, only Users with <code>team = "sales" or team = "management"</code> will be sent the email. Other Users such as team = "accounting" would not.</p> <hr> <h3>Update:</h3> <p>From what I gather on this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5296687/rails-3-action-mailer-cannot-loop-to-send-emails">question</a>, It would appear ActionMailer cannot loop, so I have modified my document_observer. Now that I moved the loop portion out of the mailer, <strong>user.email</strong> is erroring out with </p> <p><code>undefined method 'user' for</code></p> <p>If I stick in a string like <strong>'joe@net.com'</strong> the proper number of emails go out, so that part seems to work. Now it is a matter of passing the right email addresses to the message.</p> <p>Relevant code from my document_observer below:</p> <pre><code> def after_save(model) @users = User.all @users.each do |user| if model.access.include? user.team MultiMailer.doc_notification(model).deliver end end end </code></pre> <p>Relevant code from mailer. How do I pass on <strong>user.email</strong> for each email?</p> <pre><code>def doc_notification(document) mail(:to =&gt; 'joe@net.com') end </code></pre> <hr> <h3>Latest Update:</h3> <p>Ok, I just switched a couple of lines to </p> <pre><code>MultiMailer.doc_notification(user).deliver </code></pre> <p>and</p> <pre><code>def doc_notification(user) </code></pre> <p>So now the email goes out to each of the right users, but it appears I am just reversing the problem above and trading unknown user for unknown document. The email needs to reference the URL for the document that was just updated..</p> <p><strong>I should also mention that there is no association between Document and User.</strong></p>
 

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