Launching soon is a plugin (Rails Engine) that helps rails projects to manage a dedicated launching soon page before the actual launch date. The plugin also collects email from potential customers.
Options available to store subscriber’s email addresses are:
- CSV file (public/data.csv).
- Campaign Monitor (www.campaignmonitor.com).
- Mail Chimp (www.mailchimp.com).
- Database.
You need an account (API Key and List ID) with:
- Campaign Monitor If you want to use Campaign Monitor as a store for subscriber’s email address (http://www.signup.createsend.com/signup).
- MailChimp If you want to use MailChimp as a store for subscriber’s email address (http://www.mailchimp.com/signup/).
If you are using Campaign Monitor this plugin requires the following gems:
gnumarcelo-campaigning
sudo gem install gnumarcelo-campaigning -s http://gems.github.com
dependencies for gnumarcelo-campaigning: Soap4r
sudo gem install soap4r
The latest version is available on GitHub. There are a few options for installing LaunchingSoon.
Install as a Rails plugin:
script/plugin install git://github.com/Satish/launching_soon.git
Clone from the Github repository:
git clone git://github.com/Satish/launching_soon.git
Configuration is done via RAILS_ROOT/config/launching_soon.yml
.
The options that you must specify are:
- css_file_name
- html_file_name
- option_to_store_email (default: csv)
- campaign_monitor_api_key and campaign_monitor_list_id
OR
mail_chimp_api_key and mail_chimp_list_id
OR
csv_file_name
Example configuration (RAILS_ROOT/config/launching_soon.yml)
html_file_name : launching_soon.html.erb # launching soon page contants (app/views/launching_soon.html.erb) css_file_name : launching_soon.css # stylesheet for launching soon page (public/stylesheets/launching_soon.css) option_to_store_email : csv # option are : csv | campaign_monitor | mail_chimp | db campaign_monitor_api_key : _put_here_your_api_key_ # CAMPAIGN_MONITOR_API_KEY campaign_monitor_list_id : _put_here_your_list_id_ # CAMPAIGN_MONITOR_LIST_ID mail_chimp_api_key : _put_here_your_api_key_ # MAIL_CHIMP_API_KEY mail_chimp_list_id : _put_here_your_list_id_ # MAIL_CHIMP_LIST_ID csv_file_name : data.csv # file to store email addresses of the subscribers (public/data.csv)
Step 1 : Generate migration to add news_letter_subscribers table
class CreateNewsLetterSubscribers < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :news_letter_subscribers do |t| t.string :email t.timestamps end add_index :news_letter_subscribers, :email end def self.down drop_table :news_letter_subscribers end
end
OR, alternatively run the following command
rake db:migrate:launching_soon
Please submit any bugs or annoyances on the lighthouse tracker at
https://vinsol.lighthouseapp.com/projects/31867-launching-soon/overview
Copyright © 2009 [satish@vinsol.com], released under the MIT license