Development and other stuff

How to use custom headers with Rails ActionMailer #rails

In the previous post I explained how to store all outgoing emails with rails. Now it’s time to bring that to the next level and store some business metadata like user_id or company_id with it.

The best way to do that is by using custom email headers in your mailer classes. Just be careful to not send out sensible data as those headers are obviously sent to the recipients in plain text.

Add custom…

How to store all outgoing emails with Ruby on Rails

For some projects it’s necessary to keep a record of all emails that are sent by your system. When you are using an emails service they might be doing that for you but they have a limited retention time and you don’t have full control over your records, can’t use them on internal views and so on. So here is a simple and fast solution to keep your own sent email records.

    1. Create a new model…

How to Keep Referrer Spam out of your Google Analytics Statistics

Your conversion rates for your sites are obviously very important for growth and testing the market. You are making decisions off of those numbers. Therefore it’s important to make sure that those numbers are actually correct.

The Problem

Referrer Spam are faked referrals used to make you, while you look at your google analytics statistics, curious where those referrals came from and click on…

Turbolinks and the 403 redirect

Recently I came across the weird phenomenon of getting 403 responses instead of the 302 redirects I was actually doing in my code. As it took me some time to find the root cause of that I wanted to share the solution that hopefully saves you some time.

The Problem

On a request that was returning a 302 redirect to my root path I got back a 403 on  production. At first it was also very hard to…