Email notifications for admins when new talks are submitted

[phiggins]

When someone submits a new talk through our talk submission form, admins should get an email about it. The email should contain most of the information in the submission.

This feature will be done when:

• A talk submission queues an email to admins who have opted-in to notifications.
• Bonus points: An admin should be able to opt-in or opt-out of these notifications. This should probably just be a boolean flag that is exposed in the admin panel.

The site is hosted on heroku, and there are a few free email options that can be investigated:

• Sendgrid: https://addons.heroku.com/sendgrid
• Postmark: https://addons.heroku.com/postmark

... and possibly more. The key things we're looking for are simplicity and no cost.

[audreycarlsen]

I'd like to take a stab at this!

[phiggins]

Go for it! Let me know if you have questions.

[audreycarlsen]

Question: How is admin functionality set up for this website? I'm not seeing an Admin model or admin column in the User or Dude models. I'm also not seeing any sign of an admin controller or dashboard view. Is admin functionality buried in the code or in a gem, or should I go ahead and start implementing it from scratch?

[zenspider]

we use the railsadmin gem (or something similarly named).

If you wanted to make me really happy, you'd obliterate the "Dude" model. Fucking horrible name. Don't blame me or pete for that one. :)

[zenspider]

OK. I just double checked. The User model is currently only for the admin interface. The Dude model is just for the people we list and their projects.

We don't have a real notion of roles at this point, so we can't collapse the two. Until we have roles, leaving Dude as-is is fine. Adding roles is out of scope for this task. I'll make sure there is a ticket for it.

[phiggins]

Closed by #60

[zenspider]

On Apr 8, 2014, at 19:29, pete higgins notifications@github.com wrote:

Closed by #60

oops! thanks!