Application-specific e-mail template engine

Rails
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Does anyone have any experience with creating a templating system for
e-mails sent via Rails? Here is what I’d like to do:

  1. User selects “Create message” from my application
  2. User selects a predefined template from dropdown list.
  3. Selected template populates the message field with the template
    tags replaced with correct values (replacing <%= @tutor.name %> with
    John D. for example)

The issue I am running into is I am not sure if I can use standard
RHTML or ERB templates to define the Mail templates. If I can, I am
not sure how to replace the <% %> fields with the correct values on
the fly.

If anyone has any experience with a solution like this, I am all ears.

Thanks.

  • j
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On 3/5/07, Justin W. [email protected] wrote:

The issue I am running into is I am not sure if I can use standard
RHTML or ERB templates to define the Mail templates. If I can, I am
not sure how to replace the <% %> fields with the correct values on
the fly.

If anyone has any experience with a solution like this, I am all ears.

I believe shopify uses Liquid templates for this. If it doesn’t,
Liquid would still be a good fit. Executing pure ruby (erb) from
something a user entered is usually not a good thing.

–
Rick O.
http://weblog.techno-weenie.net
http://mephistoblog.com

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Thanks Rick. I will look into it.

  • j