ruby-gmail-nritholtz

Code: http://github.com/dcparker/ruby-gmail
Gem: http://gemcutter.org/gems/ruby-gmail

Author(s)

Daniel Parker of BehindLogic.com
Nathan Herald

Extra thanks for specific feature contributions from:

Description

A Rubyesque interface to Gmail, with all the tools you'll need. Search, read and send multipart emails; archive, mark as read/unread, delete emails; and manage labels.

Features

Search emails
Read emails (handles attachments)
Emails: Label, archive, delete, mark as read/unread/spam
Create and delete labels
Create and send multipart email messages in plaintext and/or html, with inline images and attachments
Utilizes Gmail's IMAP & SMTP, MIME-type detection and parses and generates MIME properly.

Problems:

May not correctly read malformed MIME messages. This could possibly be corrected by having IMAP parse the MIME structure.
Cannot grab the plain or html message without also grabbing attachments. It might be nice to lazy-[down]load attachments.

Example Code:

1) Require gmail

require 'gmail'

2) Start an authenticated gmail session

#    If you pass a block, the session will be passed into the block,
#    and the session will be logged out after the block is executed.
gmail = Gmail.new(username, password)
# ...do things...
gmail.logout

Gmail.new(username, password) do |gmail|
  # ...do things...
end

3) Count and gather emails!

# Get counts for messages in the inbox
gmail.inbox.count
gmail.inbox.count(:unread)
gmail.inbox.count(:read)

# Count with some criteria
gmail.inbox.count(:after => Date.parse("2010-02-20"), :before => Date.parse("2010-03-20"))
gmail.inbox.count(:on => Date.parse("2010-04-15"))
gmail.inbox.count(:from => "myfriend@gmail.com")
gmail.inbox.count(:to => "directlytome@gmail.com")

# Combine flags and options
gmail.inbox.count(:unread, :from => "myboss@gmail.com")

# Labels work the same way as inbox
gmail.mailbox('Urgent').count

# Getting messages works the same way as counting: optional flag, and optional arguments
# Remember that every message in a conversation/thread will come as a separate message.
gmail.inbox.emails(:unread, :before => Date.parse("2010-04-20"), :from => "myboss@gmail.com")

# Get messages without marking them as read on the server.
gmail.peek = true
gmail.inbox.emails(:unread, :before => Date.parse("2010-04-20"), :from => "myboss@gmail.com")

4) Work with emails!

# any news older than 4-20, mark as read and archive it...
gmail.inbox.emails(:before => Date.parse("2010-04-20"), :from => "news@nbcnews.com").each do |email|
  email.mark(:read) # can also mark :unread or :spam
  email.archive!
end

# delete emails from X...
gmail.inbox.emails(:from => "x-fiancé@gmail.com").each do |email|
  email.delete!
end

# Save all attachments in the "Faxes" label to a folder
folder = "/where/ever"
gmail.mailbox("Faxes").emails.each do |email|
  email.attachments.each do |attachment|
    file = File.new(folder + attachment.filename, "w+")
    file << attachment.decoded
    file.close
  end
end

# Add a label to a message
email.label("Faxes")

# Or "move" the message to a label
email.move_to("Faxes")

5) Create new emails!

Creating emails now uses the amazing Mail rubygem. See its documentation here. Ruby-gmail will automatically configure your Mail emails to be sent via your Gmail account's SMTP, so they will be in your Gmail's "Sent" folder. Also, no need to specify the "From" email either, because ruby-gmail will set it for you.

gmail.deliver do
  to "email@example.com"
  subject "Having fun in Puerto Rico!"
  text_part do
    body "Text of plaintext message."
  end
  html_part do
    content_type 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
    body "<p>Text of <em>html</em> message.</p>"
  end
  add_file "/path/to/some_image.jpg"
end
# Or, generate the message first and send it later
email = gmail.generate_message do
  to "email@example.com"
  subject "Having fun in Puerto Rico!"
  body "Spent the day on the road..."
end
email.deliver!
# Or...
gmail.deliver(email)

Requirements

ruby
net/smtp
net/imap
tmail
shared-mime-info rubygem (for MIME-detection when attaching files)

Install

gem install ruby-gmail-nritholtz

License

(The MIT License)

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