We will see how to send a simple email with the help of three different programming languages: Javascript, Ruby and Python
Before you start you need to create a Gmail account.
Do not forget to accept and allow the "Less secure apps" access in order use your scripts with your Gmail smtp connection.
I'll let you do this on your own, you don't need a tutorial for this 😜
Ruby 💎
- We are going to use the Mail gem:
gem install mail
- Require it at the beginning of your
send_email.rb:
require 'mail'
- Declare Gmail account info:
# Gmail account info
options = {
address: 'smtp.gmail.com',
port: 587, # gmail smtp port number
domain: 'gmail.com',
user_name: 'youremail@gmail.com',
password: 'yourpassword',
authentication: 'plain'
}
- Initialize Mail
delivery_methodinfo:
Mail.defaults do
delivery_method :smtp, options
end
- Send email 📧 :
Mail.deliver do
to 'myfriend@yopmail.com'
from 'youremail@gmail.com'
subject 'Sending email using Ruby'
body 'Easy peasy lemon squeezy'
end
Here the final code:
require 'mail'
# Gmail account info
options = {
address: 'smtp.gmail.com',
port: 587,
domain: 'gmail.com',
user_name: 'youremail@gmail.com',
password: 'yourpassword',
authentication: 'plain'
}
Mail.defaults do
delivery_method :smtp, options
end
Mail.deliver do
to 'myfriend@yopmail.com'
from 'youremail@gmail.com'
subject 'Sending email using Ruby'
body 'Easy peasy lemon squeezy'
end
puts 'Email sent'
The ease of Ruby 💎
Table of contents
- Javascript 🚀 - Part 1
- Ruby 💎 - Part 2
- Python 🐍 - Part 3
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