added in Shemail(mail_styles) plugin for better html email styling

.gitmodules

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "vendor/plugins/mail_style"]
+	path = vendor/plugins/mail_style
+	url = git://github.com/purify/mail_style.git

app/models/application_mailer.rb

@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 class ApplicationMailer < ActionMailer::Base
 
+  ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options[:host] = "canada.nikolaiwarner.com"
+
+
+
+  def send_weekly_newsletter(content)
+    css :email
 
-  def send_weekly_newsletter(options)
-    @subject      = 'Collexion Newsletter - ' + Date.today.to_s(:db)
-    @recipients   = 'nickwarner@gmail.com' #'collexion@googlegroups.com'
-    @from         = 'nick@nwarner.com'
-    @sent_on      = Time.now
-    @content_type = 'text/html'
-    @body[:body]  = options[:body]
+    subject       'Collexion Newsletter - ' + Date.today.to_s(:db)
+    recipients    'nickwarner@gmail.com' #'collexion@googlegroups.com'
+    from          'nick@nwarner.com'
+    sent_on       Time.now
+    content_type  'text/html'
+    body          :body => content
   end
 
 end

app/views/application_mailer/send_weekly_newsletter.haml → app/views/application_mailer/send_weekly_newsletter.text.html.haml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-!!! 5
+!!!
 %html
   %head
     %title Collexion Newsletter
   %body
-    =@body
+    =body

app/views/application_mailer/send_weekly_newsletter.text.plain.erb

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Collexion Newsletter
+
+<%= body %>

app/views/pages/create.html.haml

@@ -2,61 +2,66 @@
   %input{:type => "submit", :value => "Send Newsletter Email"}
   %br
   %textarea{:rows => "40", :cols => "100", :name => "body"}
-    .section{ :style => "margin: 10px" }
-      .section_header{ :style => "margin: 10px; font-weight: 900; font-size:20px; font-family: 'Helvetica Nue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" }
+    .section
+      .section_header
         The Collexion Newsletter - 
         = Date.today.to_s(:db)
     .section{ :style => "margin: 10px" }
-      .section_header{ :style => "margin: 10px; font-weight: 900;" }
+      .section_header
         EVENTS
-      .section_content{ :style => "margin: 5px" }
+      .section_content
         - @events.each do |event|
-          .item{ :style => "margin: 10px" }
-            .title{ :style => "font-weight: 900;" }= event.title
+          .item
+            .title
+              = event.title
             = event.time_string + " <br/> " if event.time_string
             = "@ " + event.location.title + " (" + event.location.address + ")" if event.location
             %br
             = event.description
-      .section_header{ :style => "margin: 10px; font-weight: 900;" }
+      .section_header
         Coming Soon:
-      .section_content{ :style => "margin: 5px" }
+      .section_content
         - @coming_events.each do |event|
-          .item{ :style => "margin: 5px" }
-            = event.title
+          .item
+            .title
+              = event.title
             = "@ " + event.location.title + " (" + event.location.address + ")" if event.location
             = " - " + event.time_string if event.time_string
     - unless @announcements.count.zero?
-      .section{ :style => "margin: 10px" }
-        .section_header{ :style => "margin: 10px; font-weight: 900;" }
+      .section
+        .section_header
           ANNOUNCEMENTS
-        .section_content{ :style => "margin: 5px" }
+        .section_content
           - @announcements.each_with_index do |announcement, i|
-            .item{ :style => "margin: 10px" }
-              = (i + 1).to_s + ") " + announcement.title
+            .item
+              .title
+                = (i + 1).to_s + ") " + announcement.title
               %br
               = announcement.description
     - unless @hacks.count.zero?
-      .section{ :style => "margin: 10px" }
-        .section_header{ :style => "margin: 10px; font-weight: 900;" }
+      .section
+        .section_header
           HACKS OF THE WEEK
-        .section_content{ :style => "margin: 5px" }
+        .section_content
           - @hacks.each do |hack|
-            .item{ :style => "margin: 10px" }
-              = hack.title
+            .item
+              .title
+                = hack.title
               %br
               = hack.description
     - unless @resources.count.zero?
-      .section{ :style => "margin: 10px" }
-        .section_header{ :style => "margin: 10px; font-weight: 900;" }
+      .section
+        .section_header
           RESOURCES
-        .section_content{ :style => "margin: 5px" }
+        .section_content
           - @resources.each do |resource|
-            .item{ :style => "margin: 5px" }
-              = resource.title + ": " + resource.link
+            .item
+              .title
+                = resource.title + ": " + resource.link
               = " - " + resource.description if resource.description
-    .section{ :style => "margin: 10px" }
-      .section_header{ :style => "margin: 10px; font-weight: 900;" }
+    .section
+      .section_header
         QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/SUBMISSIONS
       .section_content
-        .item{ :style => "margin: 5px" }
+        .item
           Have an announcement, event, idea, or hack to submit for the next newsletter? Email nick@nwarner.com

config/environment.rb

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file
 
 # Specifies gem version of Rails to use when vendor/rails is not present
-RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.3.4' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION
+RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.3.5' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION
 
 # Bootstrap the Rails environment, frameworks, and default configuration
 require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'boot')
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
   # config.gem "hpricot", :version => '0.6', :source => "http://code.whytheluckystiff.net"
   # config.gem "sqlite3-ruby", :lib => "sqlite3"
   # config.gem "aws-s3", :lib => "aws/s3"
+  config.gem "nokogiri"
+  config.gem "css_parser"
   config.gem "ri_cal"
 
   # Only load the plugins named here, in the order given (default is alphabetical).

public/stylesheets/email.css

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+
+
+.section {
+  margin: 10px;
+}
+
+.section_header {
+  margin: 10px; 
+  font-weight: 900; 
+  font-size:20px; 
+  font-family: 'Helvetica Nue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
+}
+
+.section_content {
+  margin: 5px;
+}
+
+.item {
+  margin: 10px;
+  font-weight: 100;
+}
+
+.title {
+  font-weight: 900;
+}
+
+