Using Action Mailer to Send Emails from a Rails App

• Carpool-App

  1 1 5.9 JavaScript

My latest project for Flatiron school is The Carpool App - one central place for parents to post and find carpools for their kids. A big part of parents arranging carpools includes parents communicating with each other, especially to request for their child to join a carpool, and then for the driver of the carpool to either accept or reject the join request. As parents are not expected to keep their eyes glued to the website to see the updates, it became necessary to have the parents updated by sending them an email.

• LetterOpener

  3 3,671 6.1 Ruby

  Preview mail in the browser instead of sending.

Another great option is to use the letter opener gem. This is a great tool to use in development, because instead of the app actually sending the email, instead it opens a new tab on your browser with the email view. This is really helpful to see what is going on with the email as it happens. If you are using the letter opener gem, you would need to install it:

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