Mad Mimi Mailer¶ ↑

• developer.madmimi.com - Learn more about the API used by this gem

• madmimi.com - Sign up for a Mad Mimi account

DESCRIPTION:¶ ↑

Let Mad Mimi handle your HTML emails. This is a drop-in replacement for ActionMailer. MadMimiMailer extends ActionMailer::Base, so you can intermingle normal ActionMailer emails with emails sent via Mad Mimi. Just start your Mad Mimi-specific emails with deliver_mimi_foo and it will send your Mad Mimi promotion named “foo”. Oh, and it will also automatically import the recipient into your Mad Mimi account.

TODO:¶ ↑

• If something goes wrong with the call to Mad Mimi, fallback and use plain old local Rails templates.

• Document how body data can be used in Mad Mimi templates

• Document promotion, hidden, and use_erb options

SYNOPSIS:¶ ↑

class UserNotifier < MadMimiMailer
  def mimi_welcome(user)
    subject "Welcome to WidgetHub"
    recipients user.email
    bcc ADMIN_PEEPS
    from "[email protected]"
    body :username => user.name, :email => user.email, :password => user.password    
  end

  def reset(user)
    subject "Resetting your WidgetHub account"
    recipients user.email
    bcc ADMIN_PEEPS
    from "[email protected]"
    body :user => user
  end
end

MadMimiMailer.api_settings = {
  :username => '[email protected]',
  :api_key => '75a6c6f1SomeFakeApiKeycbcc300'
}

user = User.first

# Sent via Mad Mimi
UserNotifier.deliver_mimi_welcome(user)

# Sent via good old ActionMailer
UserNotifier.deliver_reset(user)

API CHANGES:¶ ↑

As of 1 November Mad Mimi’s mailer API is becoming asynchronous. To simulate synchronous behaviour you can set synchronous to true in the synchronization_settings:

MadMimiMailer.synchronization_settings = {
  :synchronous                => true,         # Defaults to false
  :timeout                    => 5,            # Defaults to 10
  :suppress_timeout_exception => true          # Defaults to false
}

If you would prefer to use the asynchronous behaviour you may need to check the status of the mail: see madmimi.com/developer/mailer/status

# Send api request to Mad Mimi and receive a transaction_id
transaction_id = UserNotifier.deliver_mimi_welcome(user)

# ... use transaction_id with subsequent status check to Mad Mimi, for example
require 'rubygems'
require 'httparty'

class StatusChecker
  include HTTParty
  base_uri 'http://madmimi.com/'

  def self.go transaction_id
    username = '[email protected]'
    key = 'your_api_key'
    get("/mailers/status/#{transaction_id}", :body => {
      :username => username,
      :api_key => key
    }).response
  end
end

done = false
while !done
  response = StatusChecker.go relevant_transaction_id
  done = !%w(ignorant sending).include?(response)
  sleep(5) unless done
end

#... do stuff here ...

REQUIREMENTS:¶ ↑

• A Mad Mimi account with Mailer API enabled

• ActionMailer

INSTALL:¶ ↑

• sudo gem install gemcutter

• gem tumble

• sudo gem install mad_mimi_mailer

LICENSE:¶ ↑

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009 Dave Hoover, Obtiva Corporation

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'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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