chimpster-rails gem

The Chimpster Rails Gem is a drop-in plug-in for ActionMailer to send emails via ses through MailChimp

Supported Rails Versions

• 3.0

Install

sudo gem install chimpster-rails

Requirements

• “chimpster” gem version 0.1 and higher is required.

• You will also need a MailChimp account, server and sender signature set up to use it.

Configuring your Rails application

Rails 3

Add this to your Gemfile: (change version numbers if needed)

gem 'chimpster-rails', '0.1.0'

Don’t forget to run “bundle install” command every time you change something in the Gemfile.

Add this to your config/application.rb:

config.action_mailer.delivery_method   = :chimpster
config.action_mailer.chimpster_settings = { :api_key => "your-api-key" }

Rails 2

Add this to config/environment.rb:

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|

  ...

  config.gem 'chimpster-rails'
  require    'chimpster-rails'

  config.action_mailer.chimpster_api_key = "your-api-key"
  config.action_mailer.delivery_method  = :chimpster

  ...

end

Rails 3

class TestMailer < ActionMailer::Base

  def tagged_message
    mail(
      :subject => 'hello',
      :to      => 'sheldon@bigbangtheory.com',
      :from    => 'leonard@bigbangtheory.com',
      :tag     => 'my-tag'
    )
  end

end

Rails 3

class TestMailer < ActionMailer::Base

  def message_with_attachment
    mail(
      :subject              => 'hello',
      :to                   => 'sheldon@bigbangtheory.com',
      :from                 => 'leonard@bigbangtheory.com',
      :chimpster_attachments => [File.open("/path/to/file")]
    )
  end

end

Authors & Contributors

• Michael Hart

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 trahmmhart See LICENSE for details.