Question

I’m trying to call two lengthy commands in a when statement, but for some reason, because of its syntax, it performs two of the commands twice when it is called :

  @email = Email.find(params[:id])
  delivery = case @email.mail_type
    # when "magic_email" these two delayed_jobs perform 2x instead of 1x. Why is that?
    when "magic_email"      then Delayed::Job.enqueue MagicEmail.new(@email.subject, @email.body)
                                 Delayed::Job.enqueue ReferredEmail.new(@email.subject, @email.body)
    when "org_magic_email"  then Delayed::Job.enqueue OrgMagicEmail.new(@email.subject, @email.body)
    when "all_orgs"         then Delayed::Job.enqueue OrgBlast.new(@email.subject, @email.body)
    when "all_card_holders" then Delayed::Job.enqueue MassEmail.new(@email.subject, @email.body)
  end
  return delivery

How can I make it so that when I hit when "magic_email", it only renders both those delayed jobs once ?

Answer 1

I have tried this with following example:

  q = []
   a = case 1
   when 1 then  q.push 'ashish'
                q.push 'kumar'
   when 2 then  q.push 'test'
   when 4 then  q.push 'another test'
   end
   puts a.inspect #######["ashish", "kumar"]

This is working fine. It means your case-when syntax is ok. It might be you have aome other problem.