Getting started about sendgrid-ruby

[pmackay]

@thinkingserious I'd like to clarify, is the sendgrid-rails gem that @MincePie lists above needed at all? My understanding is the sendgrid-ruby gem is completely separate.

[thinkingserious]

Hi @MincePie!

Thanks for reaching out to us! Following are the answers to your questions:

Q1: This library handles that for you with this call: sg = SendGrid::API.new(api_key: ENV['SENDGRID_API_KEY'])

Q2: Here is some example code for sending a template:

sg = SendGrid::API.new(api_key: ENV['SENDGRID_API_KEY'])

email = SendGrid::Mail.new
email.from = SendGrid::Email.new(email: "[email protected]", name: "Example Name")
email.subject = "Your Email's Subject"

p = SendGrid::Personalization.new
p.to = SendGrid::Email.new(email: "[email protected]", name: "Example User")
p.substitutions = SendGrid::Substitution.new(key: "key1", value: "value1")
p.substitutions = SendGrid::Substitution.new(key: "key2", value: "value2")

email.personalizations = p
email.template_id = "[YOUR TEMPLATE ID]"

response = sg.client.mail._('send').post(request_body: email.to_json)

puts response.status_code
puts response.body
puts response.headers

Q3: Here are some details about fluent interfaces: https://sendgrid.com/blog/using-ruby-to-implement-a-fluent-interface-to-any-restful-api. In your case, I would not worry about it.

You would add this code right after the point in your code where you would like to trigger the email.

Please let me know if you have further questions.

With Best Regards,

Elmer

[thinkingserious]

@pmackay,

Good catch. No, that is a third party library not related to ours.