Rails Meet notes

## ActionMailbox
— rails 6 feature
— needs ruby >= 2.5.0
## Setup
— rails action_mailbox:install && rails db:migrate
— pick a mail provider
— setup inbound routes
— generate mailbox for each route
— create mailbox tables in db
— put the app on heroku/ngrok/whatever (emails can’t go to localhost)
— (also google ngrok man says it’s important)
— set up mail forwarders and ENV variables
— add one line to rails config files
— route everything to your mail controller, pick the name that makes sense
— rails g mailbox [name]
## what you can do with mail object
— it’s a LOT (look at the docs)
— store email in database by making a DB model
— mail.body contains hella html boilerplate, mail.body.decoded is just the content
— man demos tone analysis on email (like, checking the tone of language) (talk about how great this would be for customer service departments)
— he uses IBM Watson api to analyze the tone of the emails (whoa!)
— !!! important — learn tone analysis/other fun ai tricks because it’s cool and fun and not too difficult and impresses people
— IBM Watson is free for the first 1000 requests