On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:54, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>
> As a noob to rails I am struggling with being able to send a mail
> template (html) stored in my database to all the users on a mailing
> list. I can use the emailer page to send the mail template to a single
> email address, but I want to be able to put a button on the
> mailinglists
> show page that sends the mail template to all the mailings in the
> mailinglist. The code is below for the key sections I am using.
>
Well instead of doing
Emailer.deliver_contact(recipient, subject, message)
You could clearly do
recipients.each do |recipient|
Emailer.deliver_contact(recipient, subject, message)
end
assuming that recipients was some collection of email addresses
Fred
> I have been trying to figure out a solution for 4 days now and still
> cannot get anything working and am loosing the will to live!!
>
> Please if anyone could help me on this one I would be very very
> greatfull.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
>
> emailer controller
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> class Admin::EmailerController < Admin::AdminController
> def sendmail
> email = params[:email]
> recipient = email["recipient"]
> subject = email["subject"]
> message = email["message"]
> Emailer.deliver_contact(recipient, subject, message)
> return if request.xhr?
> render :text => 'Message sent successfully'
> end
>
> #def index
> # render :file => 'app\views\admin\emailer\index.html.erb'
> #end
>
> end
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> emailer index.html.erb
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> <h1>Send Email</h1>
>
> <% form_tag :action => "sendmail" do %>
> <p>
> <label for="email_subject">Subject</label>:
> <%= text_field 'email', 'subject' %>
> </p>
> <p>
> <label for="email_recipient">Recipient</label>:
> <%= text_field 'email', 'recipient' %>
> </p>
> <p>
> <label for="email_message">Message</label><br/>
> <%= text_area 'email', 'message' %>
> </p>
> <%= submit_tag "sendmail" %>
> <% end %>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> mailinglists show.html.erb - using the mail_template
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <b>Mail Template(s) in use:</b>
> <% for mail_template in @mailinglist_templates %>
> <%= link_to "#{mail_template.name}",
> admin_mail_template_path(mail_template), :class => 'websnapr' %>
> <%= link_to 'Edit', edit_admin_mail_template_path(mail_template) %>
>
>
> <% end %>
> </p>
> <br/>
> <hr> <h4><b>Subscriber List</b></h4>
> <% for mailing in @mailinglist_mailings %>
> <p><%= mailing.email_address %></p>
> <% end %>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> oh and here is my mailer model
>
> --------------------------------------------
> class Admin::Emailer < ActionMailer::Base
> def contact(recipient, subject, message, sent_at = Time.now)
> @subject = subject
> @recipients = recipient
> @from = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> @sent_on = sent_at
> @content_type = "text/html"
> @body["title"] = 'This is title'
> @body["email"] = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> @body["message"] = message
> @headers = {}
> end
> end
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >
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