This conversation is diverting from the original. The question was whether a patch for this functionality would be useful, I personally would find it useful. And on that front we're done.
If you want to talk about alternate implementations using existing Rails functionality please move the conversation over to Rails-Talk list. If you have questions or need advice cc/ me in a pull request. -- Richard Schneeman http://heroku.com @schneems (http://twitter.com/schneems) On Friday, July 20, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Matthew Johnston wrote: > Try looking into a state machine. When the user confirms, then send an email. > It's really easy to think about > > (guest) -- #confirm --> (confirming) -- #finished --> (active) > > before_transition :on => :confirm, :do => :send_confirmation_email > > Then do some magic on the confirmation side that triggers the #finished event. > > Hope this helps > > On Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:37:42 AM UTC-5, Aditya wrote: > > > > It would be nice to have mail interceptor be able to modify the message to > > prevent delivery. Alternatively it would be nice to also prevent delivery > > in the mailer itself. > > > > > > The use cases are as follows: > > > > User is unsubscribed and you really want to prevent emails being sent to > > such users. > > User has a guest account with a temp internal email address, which you do > > not want to send emails to. > > The email content may be spammy and you want to prevent that delivery. > > > > > > As such you could do each by wrapping more code around the > > MyMailer.mail_action(args)/.deliver pattern but it gets repetitive quickly. > > > > > > This is not environment specific which is already handled very well in > > Rails since ages, this is more transactional. If we can already do this > > easily, feel free to point me to the right direction. Happy to send patch > > in due time if this is acceptable. > > > > > > Possible routes i'm thinking are to add options to mail itself > > (:perform_delivery => determine_delivery(args)) and/or adding ability to > > prevent delivery from interceptor. > > > > > > Suggestions/Ideas? > > > > > > /cc @mikel (https://github.com/mikel) @josevalim > > (https://github.com/josevalim) @spastorino (https://github.com/spastorino) > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-core/-/lxnPH9Phqn4J. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com > (mailto:rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
