Holiday Mailer

Holiday Mailer is an app to create your own electronic alternative to the snail-mail photo holiday card written by Luke Melia. It’s not designed for easy re-use (yet), but feel free to fork do you own thing.

Install

• Copy config/settings.yml-example to config/settings.yml and edit
• Copy config/default_body.erb-example to config/default_body.erb and edit
• Copy config/initializers/smtp_settings.rb-example to config/initializers/smtp_settings.rb and edit
• Replace the photo of my family in public/images with one of your family
• Edit database.yml
• Change the default password in the bort migration (initially admin/billie)
• Edit the REST_AUTH_SITE_KEY in each of the environment files
• rake db:create
• rake db:migrate
• Copy config/deploy/prodution.rb-example to config/deploy/prodution.rb and edit

Credits

• Got a jumpstart via Bort
• Background from CC-licensed image by Sarah Parrott
• Powered by open source from ruby to rails to haml to jquery and much more

Thanks to all!

And of course….

Happy Holidays!