Action Mailer In Action
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ActionMailer allows you to send and receive email from your Rails application. It is important to take safety precautions when sending emails such as carefully formatting email addresses and contents, testing email delivery, and sending samples to others to check for errors before widespread distribution. Automated email testing tasks are available to help validate email templates by sending to various email providers and checking for receipt.
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Action Mailer In Action
- 1. ActionMailer in Action Rob Kaufman Notch8.com [email_address] Talk about ActionMailer Beyond just send a message via SMTP
- 2. Intro to ActionMailer (Send) ActionMailer allows you to send and receive email. Most people just use send ActionMailer is more MV than MVC AM model in /app/model inherets from ActionMailer::Base instead of ActionRecord::Base AM views are stored in /app/views/model_name Plain text vs HTML email
- 3. Safety First - Overview IDs in email Careful about 'real' email addresses in development env Careful about a lot of email Understand limits of email via own server
- 4. Safety First - Checklist Before Committing Create new email tagging Create new NotifierTest method Create new Notifier method Create new Notifier view Verify that email body includes a link at the bottom to unsubscribe
- 5. Safety First - Checklist Before Commiting (cont.) Verify that the email contains the lead id Verify that the email bodies fields are all correctly formated Verify mime-type if sending HTML email Test, Commit, Push Bootstrap
- 6. Safety First - Checklist Before Sending Send sample copy to Design (currently Andy) and Marketing (Casey and Carrie) Send sample to at least 2 individuals (besides author) to look for typos/errors Run RAILS_ENV=production rake email:check EMAIL_TEMPLATE=’template_name’ to verify Inbox delivery
- 7. Safety First - mail_safety Overrides Tmail::Mail.deliveries so that everything is sent where you want it. Can be used w/ either sendmail or smtp
- 8. Setting up Email Testing
- 9. Testing - Assert Email
- 10. Testing - Email Test Task Hits the big 4 (Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo, Gmail) Can be used just to send the templates If freepopd is installed, can check that the emails where received as well
- 11. Testing - Email Test Task rake email:send Sends all templates rake email:send EMAIL_TEMPLATE=hello Just sends the hello email rake email:accounts:check Sends all , waits for you, then checks all rake email:accounts:clear Removes all emails (cleans accounts) rake email: accounts:count_messages