Building a dashboard for the alumni where they can view and update all their details like company, address etc. It also provides a administrative access for the college, where they can manage all their alumni databases, their details and send mails to bulk people based on some filter.
Using rails-admin as dashboard, a custom action for sending out mails is implemented with option to send bulk mails as well.
Also has the functionality to send attachments.
Using Froala editor.
To set up your Gmail account set ENV variables as mentioned below:
- Add local_env.rb to /config
Put this inside local_env.rb:
ENV['GMAIL_USERNAME'] = 'YOUR GMAIL ID'
ENV['GMAIL_PASSWORD'] = 'YOUR GMAIL PASSWORD'
bundle exec sidekiq -q default -q mailers
andrails s
to get it up and running.
To use custom parser:
- Write {{value}} when writing the body or subject of email, for eg. {{name}},{{email}},etc.
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Change smtp settings.
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Change hostname in environment.rb for resetting passwords.
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Add locale_env.rb