Editable emails templates

Hi there 👋
I need users to be able to edit email templates, something like:
Hello {{ first_name }},
Please advice, thanks 👍

This is a pretty large project :) I assume you want a model called email_templates. Then I think you want a "rich_text_field" with name body_html (or similar). Then you will want to use something like the liquid templating language to parse and replace {{ variable_name }} when rendering said template.

Resources

• https://github.com/Shopify/liquid
• https://code.dblock.org/2011/09/09/rails-custom-and-editable-mailer-templates-in-markdown.html
• https://github.com/glebm/rails_email_preview
• https://github.com/code-and-effect/effective_email_templates

If you are just letting them change a few things like the subject, maybe disclaimer text, etc you can probably get by with a user_email_templates table with columns that map to those variables. Then when you go to send the email...simply load the template and inject the variables (with erb)

Thanks Casey 👍
Those are the same resources that I manged to find. They are outdated so I thought maybe there are newer resources I'm not able to find, for example "effective_email_templates" gem is no longer maintained.

You are most welcome. The resources I listed are not recommendations to install and use :) They are reference material so you can see examples of how others have done similar tasks concretely and with documentation. The idea being if you need to rebuild all or a portion of those solutions you have some pretty solid inspiration.

Take a look at Liquid and Panoramic!

Source
https://medium.com/@pratikbh06/customisable-email-templates-in-rails-made-easy-using-panoramic-and-liquid-rails-d1d71f61387d