Maily
📫 Rails Engine to preview emails in the browser (by markets)
LetterOpener
Preview mail in the browser instead of sending. (by ryanb)
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Maily | LetterOpener | |
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2 | 3 | |
697 | 3,661 | |
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2.6 | 6.1 | |
about 1 month ago | 24 days ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Maily
Posts with mentions or reviews of Maily.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-30.
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Action Mailer vs Email Templates
I don't have a reply for you but recently, a user here posted this gem and maybe it'll let you manage your email templates in-app: https://github.com/markets/maily
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Maily v2 is out
- Rubygems: https://rubygems.org/gems/maily/versions/2.0.0 - Changelog: https://github.com/markets/maily/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md - Source code: https://github.com/markets/maily
LetterOpener
Posts with mentions or reviews of LetterOpener.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-25.
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Unleash Devise-Enabling All Modules
If you input a valid email of the users you created in the system and submit the form. A POST request to http://localhost:3000/users/password will be made. Then a reset password mail as described in the previous section will be sent out. You can find that mail in the terminal running rails server. If you have a gem like letter_opener, you can see that mail shown in your browser.
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Using Action Mailer to Send Emails from a Rails App
Another great option is to use the letter opener gem. This is a great tool to use in development, because instead of the app actually sending the email, instead it opens a new tab on your browser with the email view. This is really helpful to see what is going on with the email as it happens. If you are using the letter opener gem, you would need to install it:
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Rails5 - sending and receiving emails
I recommend https://github.com/ryanb/letter_opener for local development.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Maily and LetterOpener you can also consider the following projects:
Mailman
MailCatcher - Catches mail and serves it through a dream.
Ahoy Email - First-party email analytics for Rails
premailer-rails - CSS styled emails without the hassle.
Griddler - Simplify receiving email in Rails
Mail - A Really Ruby Mail Library
Incoming - Incoming! helps you receive email in your Rack apps.
Pony - The express way to send mail from Ruby.
MailForm - Send e-mail straight from forms in Rails with I18n, validations, attachments and request information.