notification message

[Joe Guerra]

Just curious, I'd like to shoot off a notification message once a form has been entered on my site.

I guess it's easy enough to figure out.  Do I just create a mailer and call that task once it's completed?

(sorry I haven't worked with any mailers yet.)

Thanks,

Joe

[Joe Guerra]

Ok, I think I've got it figured out.  

Thanks,

Joe

[Mugurel Chirica]

You can post your solution, maybe it will help others in the future.

[Joe Guerra]

oh, it wasn't too hard.

I followed most of this -> http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html

basically generated a mailer 

'rails generate mailer Interview_Notification'

it created the mailer(s) and views I needed.

class InterviewNotificationMailer < ActionMailer::Base

  default from: "jgu...@jginfosys.com"

  # Subject can be set in your I18n file at config/locales/en.yml
  # with the following lookup:
  #
  #   en.interview_notification_mailer.interview_request.subject
  #
  def interview_request
    @greeting = "Hi, you have an interview request."

    mail to: "jgu...@jginfosys.com", subject: "Interview request!"
  end

end

In my Interviews controller, in the create def, if the interview request is saved... I fired off the mailer...

InterviewNotificationMailer.interview_request.deliver

I didn't make any changes to the mailer view.  You have to make sure you call the mailer correctly (the class, followed by def, and the action (.deliver))

That's it.

[Joe Guerra]

Oh, I almost forgot.  There are necessary additions needed to send mail from your production environment (heroku in my case).

I used the gem 'sendgrid-ruby'... 

You need to add the sendgrid resource on heroku (enable it)

need to add this configuration to the production environment...

config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => 'www.jginfosys.com', :protocol => 'https'
}

and added this to the ... environment.rb

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
    :user_name => ENV['SENDGRID_USERNAME'],
    :password => ENV['SENDGRID_PASSWORD'],
    :domain => 'www.jginfosys.com',
    :address => 'smtp.sendgrid.net',
    :port => 587,
    :authentication => :plain,
    :enable_starttls_auto => true
}

Of course, change your host and domain to match yours.

On Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 6:32:03 PM UTC-4, Joe Guerra wrote: