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 [...]
A plugin that beats the monkey metaphors to death: script/plugin install git://github.com/matthewjcarlson/acts_as_chimp . Let me know if it does or doesn’t work. It’s less a library then an implementation of a use case I’ve encountered a few times recently. As such, while plugins are falling out of favor a bit, I felt like a plugin [...]
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.