alumni-dashboard

Building a dashboard for the alumni where they can view and update all their details like company, address etc. It also provides a administrative access for the college, where they can manage all their alumni databases, their details and send mails to bulk people based on some filter.

Using rails-admin as dashboard, a custom action for sending out mails is implemented with option to send bulk mails as well.
Also has the functionality to send attachments.
Using Froala editor.

Important setup instructions:

To set up your Gmail account set ENV variables as mentioned below:

• Add local_env.rb to /config

  Put this inside local_env.rb:

       ENV['GMAIL_USERNAME'] = 'YOUR GMAIL ID'

       ENV['GMAIL_PASSWORD'] = 'YOUR GMAIL PASSWORD'

• bundle exec sidekiq -q default -q mailers and rails s to get it up and running.

To use custom parser:

• Write {{value}} when writing the body or subject of email, for eg. {{name}},{{email}},etc.

When deploying

• Change smtp settings.

• Change hostname in environment.rb for resetting passwords.

• Add locale_env.rb