WebDevKungfu

Ruby On Rails: acts_as_emailable

Jun 8, 2007 Code, Ruby on Rails, Web Dev

Matt Beedle has written a solid little plugin called acts_as_emailable that let’s site users send each other messages through the site.

A couple of cool things that stood out to me:

1. It doesn’t need to send emails it can store the messages on the site (in a db table) but can send emails if it has to using ActionMailer

2. You can make a little message form that sends a message to another user that references user id’s instead of actual email addresses

3. It has a couple cool methods like:

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user.users_whom_i_have_emailed
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user.users_who_have_emailed_me
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Full details can be found on Matt’s site:

http://matt-beedle.com/2007/06/05/acts_as_emailable/