Haml and Google SMTP for email
I first thought that I would have to use ERB to render non-HTML-like templates. Not true. Haml let you do a :plain filter which is pretty much the same as using ERB templates.
Here’s a simple example haml template for email:
1 2 3 4 5 6 | :plain
Welcome #{@user.username} to Fund-A-Stache!
click the following link to activate your account:
#{activation_link(@user)} |
I’m also using Google SMTP for email. That way I can send email from my home (which blocks SMTP traffic). This may change, but just so I can remember why I’m doing this, here’s the Pony call:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | Pony.mail( :to=>@user.email, :from=>'user@example.org', :subject=>'Welcome', :body=>(haml :registration_email, :layout=>false), :content_type=>'text/html', :via=>:smtp, :smtp=>{ :host=>'smtp.gmail.com', :port=>'587', :tls=>true, :user=>'user@example.org', :password=>'secret', :auth=>:plain, # :plain, :login, :cram_md5, no auth by default :domain=>"example.org" # the HELO domain provided by the client to the server } ) |