I am currently implementing sending an email after e.g. a Comment resource is created. I am doing it as a Changeset.after_action is this the right place to do it or should I be looking elsewhere?

There are four primary ways you can go about it, and they all depend on your requirements. After action hooks - (at least once) These are transactional with the create. What this means is that you could send an email, and then the comment could fail to create. i.e change after_action(fn changeset…

Here is how I do it: First, I create an after_action that inserts an Oban job to send the e-mail. And and then I let Oban handle the e-mail sending part in a worker. The advantage here is that even if the e-mail service is down, the action will still work and then you can handle the oban job as yo…

I’ve expanded on this in a substack post :slight_smile: [image] Sending Emails with Ash Framework A.K.A - Burying the lede on using Oban

As always @zachdaniel you go above and beyond.

Sending email as part of an action

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zachdaniel September 20, 2024, 2:54pm 4

I’ve expanded on this in a substack post