diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 98368d5..b2538ea 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -9,11 +9,13 @@ gem 'rake', '0.8.7'
 # Bundle edge Rails instead:
 # gem 'rails', :git => 'git://github.com/rails/rails.git'
 
-gem 'mysql2', '0.2.7'
+#gem 'mysql2', '0.3.7'
+gem 'sqlite3'
 
 # https://github.com/plataformatec/devise
 gem 'devise', '1.2.1'
-gem 'bcrypt-ruby', '2.1.4'
+#  gem 'bcrypt-ruby', '2.1.4'
+gem 'bcrypt-ruby'
 
 # https://github.com/ryanb/cancan
 gem 'cancan', '1.6.5'
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 48e7673..5c585f4 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ GEM
     addressable (2.2.6)
     arel (2.0.10)
     bcrypt-ruby (2.1.4)
-    bcrypt-ruby (2.1.4-x86-mingw32)
     builder (2.1.2)
     cancan (1.6.5)
     capistrano (2.5.21)
@@ -49,7 +48,7 @@ GEM
     faraday (0.6.1)
       addressable (~> 2.2.4)
       multipart-post (~> 1.1.0)
-      rack (>= 1.1.0, < 2)
+      rack (< 2, >= 1.1.0)
     faraday_middleware (0.6.5)
       faraday (~> 0.6.0)
     hashie (1.0.0)
@@ -79,7 +78,6 @@ GEM
       rack (>= 1.0.0)
     rack-test (0.5.7)
       rack (>= 1.0)
-    railroady (1.0.2)
     rails (3.0.9)
       actionmailer (= 3.0.9)
       actionpack (= 3.0.9)
@@ -121,7 +119,6 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   capistrano (= 2.5.21)
   devise (= 1.2.1)
   mysql2 (= 0.2.7)
-  railroady
   rails (= 3.0.9)
   rake (= 0.8.7)
   twitter (= 1.6.0)
diff --git a/app/controllers/birthdays_controller.rb b/app/controllers/birthdays_controller.rb
index 726c3b6..a1aa018 100644
--- a/app/controllers/birthdays_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/birthdays_controller.rb
@@ -1,17 +1,37 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 class BirthdaysController < ApplicationController
-  before_filter :authenticate_user!
+  before_filter :authenticate_user!, :except => [:do_mailing]
 
   def index
+    @birthdays = get_next_weeks_birthdays
+  end
+
+  # curl --verbose --header "Accept: application/html" --header "Content-type: application/html" --request POST --data "" http://contactorama.dev/birthdays/do_mailing
+  # wget --post-data '' http://contact-o-rama.de/birthdays/do_mailing
+  # crontab:
+  # 30 3 * * * wget --post-data '' http://contact-o-rama.de/birthdays/do_mailing
+  def do_mailing
+    birthdays = get_next_weeks_birthdays
+    birthdays.each do |bday|
+      logger.info "............< do_mailing: " + bday.firstname + " " + bday.lastname + " >.............."
+      UserMailer.next_weeks_birthday_notification(birthdays).deliver
+    end
+  end
+
+  private
+
+  def get_next_weeks_birthdays
     n = Date.today
     e = Date.today + 7.days
     
     # two cases here: now + 7days iis still the same month. or it's not.
     if n.month == e.month
-      @birthdays = Contact.where("birth_month = ? AND birth_day <= ? AND birth_day >= ?", 
+      birthdays = Contact.where("birth_month = ? AND birth_day <= ? AND birth_day >= ?", 
                                  e.month, e.day, n.day)
     else
-      @birthdays = Contact.where("(birth_month = ? AND birth_day <= ?) OR (birth_month = ? AND birth_day >= ?)",
+      birthdays = Contact.where("(birth_month = ? AND birth_day <= ?) OR (birth_month = ? AND birth_day >= ?)",
                                  e.month, e.day, n.month, n.day)
     end
-  end
+    birthdays
+  end  
 end
diff --git a/app/mailers/user_mailer.rb b/app/mailers/user_mailer.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b7cf135
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/mailers/user_mailer.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
+class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
+  default :from => "info@contact-o-rama.com"
+
+  def next_weeks_birthday_notification(birthdays)
+    logger.debug "----------------< we don't send no email, yet >----------------------"
+    @birthday_contacts = birthdays
+    mail(:to => "contact-o-rama@gasbottle-county.eu", :subject => "Contact-o-Rama: Geburtstage in den nächsten 7 Tagen.")
+    birthdays.each do |contact|
+      
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/app/views/birthdays/do_mailing.html.erb b/app/views/birthdays/do_mailing.html.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/app/views/user_mailer/next_weeks_birthday_notification.html.erb b/app/views/user_mailer/next_weeks_birthday_notification.html.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4de37e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/user_mailer/next_weeks_birthday_notification.html.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<% @birthday_contacts.each do |contact| %>
+<p>
+  <%= contact.birth_day.to_s %>.<%= contact.birth_month.to_s %>.: <%= contact.firstname %> <%= contact.lastname %>
+</p>
+<% end %>
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index bda69a8..1b85bf1 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ ContactORama::Application.routes.draw do
   devise_for :users
   resources :users
 
-  resources :birthdays
+  resources :birthdays do
+    collection do
+      post :do_mailing
+    end
+  end
   resources :contacts
 
   # The priority is based upon order of creation:
diff --git a/test/functional/user_mailer_test.rb b/test/functional/user_mailer_test.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..736b3a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/functional/user_mailer_test.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+require 'test_helper'
+
+class UserMailerTest < ActionMailer::TestCase
+  # replace this with your real tests
+  test "the truth" do
+    assert true
+  end
+end