This a very simple ActionMailer delivery handler for sending messages through MailChimp's Mandrill.
At the core, it uses https://github.com/tatemae-consultancy/mandrill.
It is a partial fork of this gem https://github.com/mailchimp/mailchimp-gem/. From what I can tell, that gem was not finished and Mailchimp took the project down. Unfortunately, I was already using it, so I made this fork from local source.
##Usage
Tell ActionMailer to send mail using Mandrill by adding the follow to to your config/application.rb or to the proper environment (eg. config/production.rb) :
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :mandrill
config.action_mailer.mandrill_settings = {
:api_key => "your_mailchimp_mandrill_apikey",
:track_clicks => true,
:track_opens => true,
:from_name => "Change Me"
}
These setting will allow you to use ActionMailer as you normally would, any calls to mail() will be sent using Mandrill
If your application will specify the API Key on a per email basis, you can configure your application like so:
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :mailchimp_mandrill
config.action_mailer.mailchimp_mandrill_settings = {
:track_clicks => true,
:track_opens => true,
:from_name => "Change Me"
}
Once this is specified, be sure to include the api_key in ActionMailer.mail()'s options:
class ExampleMailer < ActionMailer::Base
default from: "no-reply@example.com"
def test_email(object_with_api_key)
mail(to: object_with_api_key.email,
subject: "This is an example Mandrill Email",
api_key: object_with_api_key.api_key)
end
end
And the Mandrill Delivery Hander will read the api key from the email message object, instead of the application configuration