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Create and send a Mailchimp campaign with gibbon, using content sections from ActionView templates
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gibbon.rb
gibbon = Gibbon::API.new
view = ActionView::Base.new('app/views/', {instance_variable_for_templates: 5324}, ActionController::Base.new)
campaign = gibbon.campaigns.create(
type: "regular",
options: {
list_id: 'xxxy',
from_email: 'you@example.com',
from_name: 'Your From',
subject: "the subject",
template_id: 128128398
},
content: {
sections: {
template_html: view.render(partial: 'mailchimp/template_html'),
footer_or_whatever: view.render(partial: 'mailchimp/footer_or_whatever')
}
}
)
gibbon.campaigns.send(cid: campaign['id'])
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template.html
<!-- create a 'code your own' template -->
<!-- drag & drop / WYSIWYG templates made by mailchimp don't support adding mc:edit blocks -->
<!-- the WYSIWYG editor can only be used by campaigns created through the mailchimp.com GUI, not via the API -->
<html>
<div mc:edit='template_html'>placeholder text</div>
<div mc:edit='footer_or_whatever'>placeholder text that only appears when footer_or_whatever is not provided (or in preview mode) </div>
</html>
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