Email in Rails

Email shows up throughout the ticketing app build: account flows that touch the user’s address, local development tooling, actually sending mail from the app, and eventually wiring a real email service provider.

One stream explores email gems for local development alongside pub/sub patterns in Rails—useful when you want to develop and test mail without blasting real inboxes. Another session focuses on sending emails from the Rails app once the basics are in place.

The most structured walkthrough is adding an ESP: comparing providers on price, support, and link tracking, choosing SparkPost, walking through DNS (TXT records), AWS configuration sets, and feedback for bounces and complaints before requesting production access. Together, those streams trace a path from “emails work on my machine” to something you could run in production.