As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve started looking into writing DataMapper Adapters, using my MailChimp wrapper as an example. Thus far, I’ve been pretty impressed with the Adapter layer built into DataMapper and the possibilities this abstraction layer provides. A quick search over at GitHub will show you all the interesting things folks [...]
Inspired by this post by The Merbist, I’ve decided to begin writing a Datamapper Adapter for MailChimp as a follow up to my post about creating a Merb web service. Look here for updates. Just an empty shell at the moment, but I’ll remedy that shortly.
A while back, I was asked to build some code to help keep a businesses mailing list synchronized between SalesForce.com and their campaign management tool, which I suggested should be MailChimp and not the tool they were currently using, but I digress. The project never materialized, but I figured I would build it anyway and [...]
Fixed a sorta obvious bug and added a new feature to acts_as_chimp today. You can now specify a list of merge tags in your acts_as_chimp model declaration like so: [sourcecode language='ruby'] acts_as_chimp :mailing_list_id => ‘your_list_id’, :mail_merge => {“EMAIL” => :email, “FNAME” => :first_name, “LNAME” => :last_name } [/sourcecode] The plugin will read the method values [...]
acts_as_chimp plugin underway this evening….finished product will be here shortly. update: an early version of the plugin has been added to a github repository. Please see this post.