I don’t know why this isn’t just a link in the UI but to show unread emails in your gmail account type this in the search: label:unread in:inbox
Category: email
Implicit multipart emails using Ruby on Rails and ActionMailer won’t work
I’ve been beating my head against the wall trying to figure out why html emails from my Rails Engine are sent out as plain text ie the email shows up with all the html tags visible. Turns out there is an issue in Rails 2.3.2: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2263-rails-232-breaks-implicit-multipart-actionmailer-tests. For now I’m just setting my emails to html,…
Sending email with Ruby on Rails 2.3.2 and gmail
If you need an easy way to setup email for your company or for a client it’s hard to not love Google Apps. (The ‘standard’ ie free version is here). It is very likely that at some point you will need to send out emails from your application. Don’t cry. Gmail can do this for…
Tip for Testing Email with Ruby on Rails and Shoulda
Shoulda comes with a great method for testing email called ‘assert_sent_email’. (If you try it and get a method missing error update Shoulda. Not that anyone wouldn’t know to just do that). No matter what you use to test email as long as you are in test mode your emails will be placed into an…
Tip for Testing Email with Ruby on Rails and Shoulda
Shoulda comes with a great method for testing email called ‘assert_sent_email’. (If you try it and get a method missing error update Shoulda. Not that anyone wouldn’t know to just do that). No matter what you use to test email as long as you are in test mode your emails will be placed into an…
Email Sucks
In a job interview a long time ago I was asked what I hate to do the most. At the time my response was, “write USB device drivers.” I had to do that at Sorenson Vision and I hated it. When you write device drivers you can really mess up a system. You screw up…