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Announcing mails_viewer - easiest way to test mails in Rails app

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Post by poshboytl » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:08 PM UTC

Announcing mails_viewer - easiest way to test mails in Rails app
pragmaticly.github.com

Re: Announcing mails_viewer - easiest way to test mails in Rails app

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Post by xuzhe » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:28 PM UTC

Looks good.

I think it would be better if you also put the screenshot in your blog into the README.md.

Re: Announcing mails_viewer - easiest way to test mails in Rails app

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Post by mr_november » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:31 PM UTC

Nice. Is this closed source? Can you tell me what it adds on top of tomlion's code? Don't see anything about that in the readme. Thanks

Re: Announcing mails_viewer - easiest way to test mails in Rails app

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Post by yehanyin » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:35 PM UTC

mr_november wrote: post #3

Nice. Is this closed source? Can you tell me what it adds on top of tomlion's code? Don't see anything about that in the readme. Thanks

@mr_november Thanks for read. You can directly get the codes at the github. Tomlion is my former colleague and I worked with him on this project at the beginning. And now I'm the only maintainer and you can see the changes via the commits. But true it's better to write the changes in the README. Thanks.

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Post by yuanyim » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:40 PM UTC

it works like charming, nice job!

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Post by mikeevans » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:41 PM UTC

mr_november wrote: post #3

Nice. Is this closed source? Can you tell me what it adds on top of tomlion's code? Don't see anything about that in the readme. Thanks

Doesn't look closed source, there's a link to the github repo at the top of the page.

Re: Announcing mails_viewer - easiest way to test mails in Rails app

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Post by patio11 » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:43 PM UTC

Nice.

I usually do this with a dummy controller rigged up to show them in the browser and fire them at whitelisted test inboxes, but always nice to see more ways people handle these challenges.

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Post by jbredeche » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:44 PM UTC

We've been using letter_opener (https://github.com/ryanb/letter_opener), which handles the "preview" case very well (opens the rich text and plain emails in separate browser tabs on send). Doesn't do the other stuff that mails_viewer does, but a good lightweight alternative.

Re: Announcing mails_viewer - easiest way to test mails in Rails app

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Post by cmer » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:47 PM UTC

jbredeche wrote: post #8

We've been using letter_opener ( https://github.com/ryanb/letter_opener ), which handles the "preview" case very well (opens the rich text and plain emails in separate browser tabs on send). Doesn't do the other stuff that mails_viewer does, but a good lightweight alternative.

Another alternative is Mail Catcher which we've been using with much success. http://mailcatcher.me/

Re: Announcing mails_viewer - easiest way to test mails in Rails app

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Post by yehanyin » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:54 PM UTC

Besides mails_viewer, there are several more choices such as mail_view, letter_opener, mailcatcher and mailsafe. Checkout our blog http://blog.pragmatic.ly/announcing-mailsviewer-a-rails-engi... for more info. There is a link in the github page but I think it's not clear, :)