Application-specific e-mail template engine

rubyonrails-talk
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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 Doe 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

2

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.

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Thanks Rick. I will look into it.

- j