Newsletter Sign Up Form with country_select Discussion

General • Asked February 12, 2018 8:39pm by Chris Oliver

Nathan Rofkahr 10 XP April 9, 2015 9:35pm

Well I for one appreciated this :)

Routine Tracker April 10, 2015 4:31pm

Loved the concrete implementation of a feature, but I certainly wouldn't be opposed to some in-depth Javascript (or even CoffeeScript).

Chris Oliver 204,940 XP April 12, 2015 10:18pm

Definitely plan on doing more Javascript / CoffeeScript soon.

Jared Smith 210 XP April 16, 2015 8:02pm

That would be awesome!

Kohl Kohlbrenner April 11, 2015 4:33pm

@Chris It might be a bit ambitious, but what are your thoughts on making a screencast deconstructing a rails app(just using plain ruby)? I completed a PHP project last month without the use of a framework for the first time ever and it really opened my eyes to how the MVC construct works. It helped me understand the relationship between the pages, how variables are sent from controller to view, and I was able to identify more clearly, "okay this page is a view, this is a controller, etc". just a suggestion!

Chris Oliver 204,940 XP April 11, 2015 4:39pm

Yes!! I'm definitely planning on doing a "Rails-from-scratch" series so you can see exactly how all this comes together from just regular old Ruby. Really looking forward to it but need to get it all mapped out beforehand.

S K Chowdhury Masum May 4, 2015 5:18pm

Rails-from-scratch! sound great when I will see that series live?

Chris Oliver 204,940 XP May 4, 2015 5:20pm

Pretty soon! It's a lot of content so I need to make sure I plenty of time to plan it all out.

S K Chowdhury Masum May 4, 2015 9:02pm

i just started counting for that glorious moment!

derk April 12, 2015 12:03pm

yeah it would be very helpful

Nathan Anderson 30 XP May 30, 2015 4:40am

Great video. Thanks for sharing. This has been something that I was curious about for a while. Personally, I had one of those "duh" moments where a couple of Rails concepts that I was struggling with came together (even though they weren't directly targeted in this video). Thanks for the help!

Manuel Quintanilla July 16, 2015 5:51am

setting up mandrill with something like this? trying to get an email sent everytime someone submits their name and email information

Vũ Nguyên September 22, 2015 9:30am

Very useful, I learned a lot from this video. Thank you :D

Anthony Candaele November 23, 2015 10:40am

great video, thanks! What happens though with the form data that was submitted? Is it displayed in a view, or is it send to an email address?

I'm asking this because a client as me to implement a sign-up button for a newletter on his Rails application.

This video looks great to get me started implementing this sign-up form. But I'm not sure on how to process the submitted data.
Any advice is welcome,

greetings,

Anthony

Chris Oliver 204,940 XP November 23, 2015 2:31pm

In this case, the information is just saved to the database so you could do what you want with it.

Anthony Candaele November 24, 2015 7:57am

yeah, I just read out the subscription emails in the admin section of my application. Maybe it would be handy to have a function that copies all the subscriptions to the local systems clipboard so they can easily be pasted somewhere else.

Anthony Candaele November 25, 2015 8:41am

there's one issue with the above implementation. After signing up, the success message is always shown. Is there a way to only show the success message once, when signing up successfully?

iBoring December 21, 2015 4:53am

Hi Chris, it's really useful video, thanks a lot
I want to ask on how to generate PDF for this submitted newsletter form?
I have a client asking me to enable a feature that after visitors clicked the submit button, visitors can receive PDF from the form they filled in.