how can a user contact another user

[Friederike Geiken]

I think this is a rather general question. I would like to implement the
following function in my website: Users can create different listings.
Other user can click on the listing and click a contact button that
links to a contact form. Here, users can send the listing user a
message.

Does anyone know a good reference, or a tutorial for this functionality?
Or does anyone know how to program this?

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[Friederike Geiken]

[Colin Law]

On 15 August 2014 01:53, Friederike Geiken <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I think this is a rather general question. I would like to implement the
> following function in my website: Users can create different listings.
> Other user can click on the listing and click a contact button that
> links to a contact form. Here, users can send the listing user a
> message.

Do you mean send an email? If so then have a look at the Rails Guide
on ActionMailer.

Colin

[Colin Stodd]

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, and you might have to go back and add other controllers etc from previous sections.  But Michael Hartl's tutorial has the "follow" feature in his sample_app... http://www.railstutorial.org/book/following_users

[Friederike Geiken]

Colin Mr. wrote in post #1155224:

> Not sure if this is what you are looking for, and you might have to go
> back
> and add other controllers etc from previous sections. But Michael
> Hartl's
> tutorial has the "follow" feature in his sample_app...
> http://www.railstutorial.org/book/following_users

No, I followed his tutorial already.
I'm looking for a function that lets one user contact another user.
So the user goes to a users profile, looks at one of his
listing/postings. Now he would like to send the posting user an inquiry
about this posting.
The user should be able to click on a contact button, that lets him get
in contact with the listing user.
Does this make sense?

[Friederike Geiken]

Not exactly. I don't want to send an email to a user. A user should be
able to fill out a contact form, which than goes to the listing user.
So I'm looking for a function that lets one user contact another user.

So the user goes to a users profile, looks at one of his
listing/postings. Now he would like to send the posting user an inquiry
about this posting.
The user should be able to click on a contact button, that lets him get
in contact with the listing user.
Does this make sense?

[Hassan Schroeder]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Friederike Geiken <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Here, users can send the listing user a message.

> Or does anyone know how to program this?

Think about what minimally addresses your scenario, e.g.

user <has one> message queue <has many> messages

Doesn't seem too complex :-)

HTH,
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[Friederike Geiken]

Hassan Schroeder wrote in post #1155231:

Hm... I'm sorry. I'm very new to ROR so there are many things still
tricky for me.
Could you explain a little further?

[Hassan Schroeder]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Friederike Geiken <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

>> user <has one> message queue <has many> messages

> Hm... I'm sorry. I'm very new to ROR so there are many things still
> tricky for me.
> Could you explain a little further?

"has_one" and "has_many" are very basic Rails (ActiveRecord)
association concepts. If that's not clear, read this:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html

Well, read all the guides, but that one first :-)

[Friederike Geiken]

The has one has many is clear.
But thanks I will definitely read over it again :)
I think what I'm struggling with more is how to actually deliver a
message from user to user.

[Hassan Schroeder]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Friederike Geiken <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I think what I'm struggling with more is how to actually deliver a
> message from user to user.

You add the message to the user's message_queue.

That's what "delivered" means. Not complex.

[tamouse pontiki]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Friederike Geiken <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

I think what I'm struggling with more is how to actually deliver a
message from user to user.

That is what *you* need to define. People have suggested email (rejected by you), a message queue (not understood). Step back and think about how you want the receiving user to experience this. Then design your models accordingly.