I often thought of this, application user is actually modifying the email contents before mail gets delivered. And I just set one example of it
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# gem 'ckeditor_rails' # from https://github.com/tsechingho/ckeditor-rails | |
# allow modifying existing template | |
<textarea name="modified_email" class="ckeditor"> | |
<%= File.read "#{Rails.root.to_s}/app/views/user_mailer/do_email.html.erb"%> | |
</textarea> | |
<%= javascript_include_tag "ckeditor-jquery" %> | |
<script type="text/javascript"> | |
$('.ckeditor').ckeditor({ | |
height: "800px", | |
allowedContent: true, | |
toolbar: [ | |
{ name: 'document', items : [ 'Source', '-', 'Undo','Redo', '-','SpellChecker'] }, | |
{ name: 'basicstyles', items : [ '-', 'Bold','Italic','Underline'] }, | |
{ name: 'colors', items : [ '-', 'TextColor','BGColor' ] }, | |
{ name: 'styles', items : [ '-', 'Styles','Format','Font','FontSize' ] }, | |
{ name: 'tools', items : [ '-', 'Maximize' ] } | |
] | |
}); | |
setTimeout(function(){ | |
$("a.cke_button").attr("style", "padding:8px;"); | |
$(".cke_chrome").attr("style", "width: 76% !important; overflow: hidden;"); | |
}, 500); | |
</script> | |
# in your mailer | |
def do_email modified_contents | |
body = ActionView::Base.new.render :inline => CGI.unescapeHTML(modified_contents), :locals => { :token => token } | |
# you can have assigns as well | |
mail :to => recipients, | |
:subject => "Do Email", | |
:content_type => "text/html", | |
:body => body | |
end |