ActsAsMessagable

ActsAsMessagable is a gem to help you with internal messages between ActiveRecord::Base instances in your Rails application.

A typical use case would be message system for the communication between users, including replies, sender copies and an archive functionality.

It is also possible to send messages to instances of ActiveRecord::Base which do not receive the messages themselves, but instead either forward them to a group of other instances (which may forward them further) or handle them in a specified method.

This makes the gem usable as an internal email replacement as well as a notification system.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'acts_as_messagable'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install acts_as_messagable

Currently, the gem is compatible with Rails 2.3, an upgrade to Rails 3 is planned.

To declare a model as messagable, the gem adds a method acts_as_messagable to all model classes.

The following lines will make all instances of User messagable, meaning that Users may receive messages directly without further processing them.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    acts_as_messagable :sender_name    => lambda {|u| u.name :title },
                       :recipient_name => lambda {|u| u.name :title }
end

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request