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FFMail

This gem was built on top of ActiveModel to showcase how you can pull in validations, naming and i18n from Rails to your models without the need to implement it all by yourself. It is based on mailform by plataformatec by Jose Valim, one of the main contributors for Rails

Description

FFMail is a simple way to include a contact form in your Rails website.

class ContactForm < FFmail::Base
  attributes :name, :email, :message
  
  # Declare the e-mail headers, inherits from ActionMailer. 
  def headers
    {
      :to => "Your email goes here",
      :from => %("#{name}" <#{email}>)
    }
  end
end

If you want to check out how it works, just open a ruby console and type in:

c = ContactForm.new(:name => 'Name', :email => "sender's email", :message => 'A message')
c.deliver

Installation

To install this gem, add the following line to your Gemfile:

gem 'ffmail', :git => git://github.com/eLobato/RRPDF.git

I18n

FFMail includes I18n behavior extended from ActiveRecord.

Spam protection

Include a 'nickname' field in your forms and hide it with CSS. Users won't fill it but some bots will and it won't send the email if it's filled

Thanks

Thanks to Jose Valim for writing Crafting Rails Applications, an outstanding book that explains extremely well how to work with Rails 3 API and thus allowed me to write this.