Email on Rails

Generating a Mailer in Rails $ rails generate mailer UserMailer
create app/mailers/user_mailer.rb invoke erb create app/views/user_mailer/

Sending email - ActionMailer::Base class class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base default
from: '[email protected]' def welcome_email(user) @user = user @url = 'http://example.com/login' mail(to: @user.email, subject: 'Welcome to My Awesome Site') end end A cross between a Model and a Controller

Sending Email in Plain Text Welcome to example.com, <%= @user.name
%> =============================================== You have successfully signed up to example.com, your username is: <%= @user.login %>. To login to the site, just follow this link: <%= @url %>. Thanks for joining and have a great day! app/views/user_mailer/welcome_email.text.erb A view that is rendered over SMTP

Sending Email in HTML <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta content='text/html;
charset=UTF-8' http-equiv='Content-Type' /> </head> <body> <h1>Welcome to example.com, <%= @user.name %></h1> <p> You have successfully signed up to example.com, your username is: <%= @user.login %>.<br/> </p> <p> To login to the site, just follow this link: <%= @url %>. </p> <p>Thanks for joining and have a great day!</p> </body> </html> app/views/user_mailer/welcome_email.html.erb

Receiving email in Rails “Receiving and parsing emails with Action
Mailer can be a rather complex endeavor. Before your email reaches your Rails app, you would have had to conﬁgure your system to somehow forward emails to your app, which needs to be listening for that.” - guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html

Receiving Email in Rails IRL - In Real Life To
The CLOUD

Example app for receiving email with ! https://github.com/CodeFellowsOrg/postmark-mitt-example

• Endpoints for web APIs to POST to • Enable:
• Service Integration • Compostability, Encapsulation, Polymorphism, all good things! • http://localhost:3000/incoming_email • a Controller with an action to handle POST

http://www.ultrahook.com

Email on Rails

Email on Rails

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Email on Rails

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2012

Generating a Mailer in Rails $ rails generate mailer UserMailer

Sending email - ActionMailer::Base class class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base default

Sending Email in Plain Text Welcome to example.com, <%= @user.name

Sending Email in HTML <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta content='text/html;

Receiving email in Rails “Receiving and parsing emails with Action

Receiving email in Rails “Receiving and parsing emails with Action

Receiving Email in Rails IRL - In Real Life To

Example app for receiving email with ! https://github.com/CodeFellowsOrg/postmark-mitt-example

Example app for receiving email with ! https://github.com/CodeFellowsOrg/postmark-mitt-example

• Endpoints for web APIs to POST to • Enable:

http://www.ultrahook.com

end