Mail gem

The mail gem!

The mail gem is a popular Ruby library for creating and sending emails. It provides a simple and flexible way to compose and send emails using Ruby. Here are some of its key features:

Key Features:

  1. Email Composition: The mail gem allows you to create and compose emails using a simple and intuitive API.
  2. Email Sending: You can send emails using various transport mechanisms, such as SMTP, Sendmail, and Mailgun.
  3. Email Rendering: The gem provides built-in support for rendering email templates using ERb, Haml, or Slim.
  4. Email Parsing: You can parse incoming emails and extract relevant information, such as sender, recipient, subject, and body.
  5. Email Validation: The gem provides built-in support for validating email addresses and detecting common email validation issues.

How to use the mail gem:

  1. Add the mail gem to your Gemfile: gem 'mail', '~> 2.7.1'
  2. Require the gem in your Ruby file: require 'mail'
  3. Create a new Mail object: mail = Mail.new
  4. Set the email's from, to, subject, and body attributes: mail.from = '[email protected]', mail.to = '[email protected]', mail.subject = 'Hello World', mail.body = 'This is the email body.'
  5. Send the email using your preferred transport mechanism: mail.deliver

Example Code:

require 'mail'

mail = Mail.new
mail.from = '[email protected]'
mail.to = '[email protected]'
mail.subject = 'Hello World'
mail.body = 'This is the email body.'

mail.deliver

Common Use Cases:

  1. Sending automated emails (e.g., password reset emails, welcome emails)
  2. Creating email newsletters or promotional emails
  3. Integrating with other services (e.g., CRM, marketing automation tools)
  4. Parsing and processing incoming emails (e.g., email parsing, email filtering)

Overall, the mail gem is a powerful and flexible tool for working with emails in Ruby.