Sendwithus Ruby Client

Ruby bindings for sending email via the Sendwithus API.

Installation

gem install send_with_us

or with Bundler:

gem 'send_with_us'
bundle install

Usage

Send

NOTE - If a customer does not exist by the specified email (recipient address), the send call will create a customer.

send_email arguments

template_id - string - Template ID being sent
to - hash - Recipients' email address
:data - hash - Email data
:from - hash - From name/address/reply_to
:cc - array - array of CC addresses
:bcc - array - array of BCC addresses
:files - array - array of files to attach, as strings or hashes (see below)
:esp_account - string - ESP account used to send email
:version_name - string - version of template to send
:headers - hash - custom email headers NOTE only supported by some ESPs
:tags - array - array of strings to attach as tags
:locale - string - Localization string

send_with arguments [DEPRECATED]

template_id - string - Template ID being sent
to - hash - Recipients' email address
data - hash - Email data
from - hash - From name/address/reply_to
cc - array - array of CC addresses
bcc - array - array of BCC addresses
files - array - array of files to attach, as strings or hashes (see below)
esp_account - string - ESP account used to send email
version_name - string - version of template to send
headers - hash - custom email headers NOTE only supported by some ESPs
tags - array - array of strings to attach as tags

For any Ruby project:

require 'rubygems'
require 'send_with_us'

begin
    obj = SendWithUs::Api.new( api_key: 'YOUR API KEY', debug: true )

    # required params
    result = obj.send_email(
        'template_id',
        { address: "user@example.com" })
    puts result

    # required params and locale
    result = obj.send_email(
        'template_id',
        { address: "user@example.com" }),
        locale: 'en-US'
    puts result

    # full cc/bcc support
    result = obj.send_email(
        'template_id',
        { name: 'Matt', address: 'recipient@example.com' },
        data: { company_name: 'TestCo' },
        from: { name: 'Company',
            address: 'company@example.com',
            reply_to: 'info@example.com' },
        cc: [
            { name: 'CC',
                address: 'cc@example.com' }
        ],
        bcc: [
            { name: 'BCC',
                address: 'bcc@example.com' },
            { name: 'BCC2',
                address: 'bcc2@example.com' }
        ])
    puts result

    # Attachment support
    result = obj.send_email(
        'template_id',
        { name: 'Matt', address: 'recipient@example.com' },
        data: { company_name: 'TestCo' },
        from: { name: 'Company',
            address: 'company@example.com',
            reply_to: 'info@example.com' },
        cc: [],
        bcc: [],
        files: [
          'path/to/file.txt',
          { filename: 'customfilename.txt', attachment: 'path/to/file.txt' },
          { filename: 'anotherfile.txt', attachment: File.open('path/to/file.txt') },
          { filename: 'unpersistedattachment.txt', attachment: StringIO.new("raw data") },
          { id: "alreadyBase64EncodedFile", data: "aG9sYQ==\n" }
        ]
    )
    puts result

    # Set ESP account
    # See: https://help.sendwithus.com/support/solurtions/articles/1000088976-set-up-and-use-multiple
    result = obj.send_email(
        'template_id',
        { name: 'Matt', address: 'recipient@example.com' },
        data: { company_name: 'TestCo' },
        from: { name: 'Company',
            address: 'company@example.com',
            reply_to: 'info@example.com' },
        cc: [],
        bcc: [],
        files: [],
        esp_account: 'esp_MYESPACCOUNT')
    puts result

    # all possible arguments
    result = obj.send_email(
        'template_id',
        { name: 'Matt', address: 'recipient@example.com' },
        data: { company_name: 'TestCo' },
        from: {
          name: 'Company',
          address: 'company@example.com',
          reply_to: 'info@example.com'
        },
        cc: [
            { name: 'CC',
                address: 'cc@example.com' }
        ],
        bcc: [
            { name: 'BCC',
                address: 'bcc@example.com' },
            { name: 'BCC2',
                address: 'bcc2@example.com' }
        ],
        files: ['path/to/attachment.txt'],
        esp_account: 'esp_MYESPACCOUNT',
        version_name: 'v2',
        tags: ['tag1', 'tag2'],
        locale: 'en-US')
    puts result

    # send_with - DEPRECATED!
    result = obj.send_with(
        'template_id',
        { name: 'Matt', address: 'recipient@example.com' },
        { company_name: 'TestCo' },
        {
          name: 'Company',
          address: 'company@example.com',
          reply_to: 'info@example.com'
        },
        [
            { name: 'CC',
                address: 'cc@example.com' }
        ],
        [
            { name: 'BCC',
                address: 'bcc@example.com' },
            { name: 'BCC2',
                address: 'bcc2@example.com' }
        ],
        ['path/to/attachment.txt'],
		'esp_MYESPACCOUNT',
		'v2',
        ['tag1', 'tag2'],
        'en-US')
    puts result
rescue => e
    puts "Error - #{e.class.name}: #{e.message}"
end

Render a Template

email_id - string - Template ID being rendered
version_id - string - Version ID to render (optional)
data - hash - Email data to render the template with (optional)
data[:locale] - hash value - This option specifies the locale to render (optional)
strict - bool - This option enables strict mode and is disabled by default (optional)

require 'rubygems'
require 'send_with_us'

begin
    obj = SendWithUs::Api.new( api_key: 'YOUR API KEY', debug: true )

    result = obj.render(
        'template_id',
        'version_id',
        { company_name: 'TestCo' },
		strict=true)

    puts result
rescue => e
    puts "Error - #{e.class.name}: #{e.message}"
end

Remove Customer from All Drip Campaigns

require 'rubygems'
require 'send_with_us'

begin
    obj = SendWithUs::Api.new( api_key: 'YOUR API KEY', debug: true )

    result = obj.drips_unsubscribe('customer@example.com')

    puts result
rescue => e
    puts "Error - #{e.class.name}: #{e.message}"
end

Using Drip Campaigns

require 'rubygems'
require 'send_with_us'

begin
    obj = SendWithUs::Api.new( api_key: 'YOUR API KEY', debug: true )

    # List campaigns
    result = obj.list_drip_campaigns()
    puts result

    # List steps of campaign dc_asdf1234
    result = obj.drip_campaign_details('dc_asdf1234')
    puts result

    # Add customer@example.com to campaign dc_asdf1234
    result = obj.start_on_drip_campaign('customer@example.com', 'dc_asdf1234')
    puts result

    OR

    # Add customer@example.com to campaign dc_asdf1234, with optional: email_data, locale, tags
    result = obj.start_on_drip_campaign('customer@example.com', 'dc_asdf1234', {total: '100.00'}, 'en-US', ['tag1', 'tag2'])
    puts result

    # Remove customer@example.com from campaign dc_asdf1234
    result = obj.remove_from_drip_campaign('cusomter@example.com', 'dc_asdf1234')
    puts result
    rescue => e
    puts "error - #{e.class.name}: #{e.message}"
end

Customers

Get a Customer

customer = obj.customer_get("visha@example.com")

Create/Update a Customer

result = obj.customer_create("visha@example.com")

Delete a Customer

result = obj.customer_delete("visha@example.com")

Templates

# List Templates
obj.list_templates() # Alternatively, obj.emails()

# Create Template
obj.create_template(name, subject, html, text)

# Delete Template
obj.delete_template(template_id)

# List Template Versions
obj.list_template_versions(template_id)

# Get Template Version
obj.get_template_version(template_id, version_id)

# Update Template Version
obj.update_template_version(template_id, version_id, name, subject, html, text)

# Create Template Version
obj.create_template_version(template_id, name, subject, html, text)

Rails

For a Rails app, create send_with_us.rb in /config/initializers/ with the following:

SendWithUs::Api.configure do |config|
    config.api_key = 'YOUR API KEY'
    config.debug = true
end

In your application code where you want to send an email:

begin
    result = SendWithUs::Api.new.send_with('template_id', { address: 'recipient@example.com' }, { company_name: 'TestCo' })
    puts result
rescue => e
    puts "Error - #{e.class.name}: #{e.message}"
end

Take a look at our Mailer that you can use similarly to ActionMailer

sendwithus_ruby_action_mailer

Logs

Get single log

Used to get the details for a single log. The log ID can be obtained by recording the receipt_id value returned from the send call.

obj.log('log_sld7xWJ3isc23-3')

Get logs for customer

This will retrieve email logs for a customer.

Optional Arguments:

count – The number of logs to return. Max: 100, Default: 100.
created_gt – Return logs created strictly after the given UTC timestamp.
created_lt – Return logs created strictly before the given UTC timestamp.

obj.customer_email_log('customer@example.com', count: 1)

Get events for a single log

This will retrieve the events and associated data for a specified log.

obj.log_events('log_sld7xWJ3isc23-3')

Errors

The following errors may be generated:

SendWithUs::ApiInvalidEndpoint - the target URI is probably incorrect or template_id is invalid
SendWithUs::ApiInvalidKey - the sendwithus API key is invalid
SendWithUs::ApiBadRequest - the API request is invalid
SendWithUs::ApiConnectionRefused - the target URI is probably incorrect
SendWithUs::ApiUnknownError - an unhandled HTTP error occurred

Running tests

Use rake to run the tests:

$: rake

Troubleshooting

General Troubleshooting

Enable debug mode
Make sure you're using the latest Ruby client
Capture the response data and check your logs — often this will have the exact error

Enable Debug Mode

Debug mode prints out the underlying request information as well as the data payload that gets sent to sendwithus. You will most likely find this information in your logs. To enable it, simply put debug: true as a parameter when instantiating the API object. Use the debug mode to compare the data payload getting sent to sendwithus' API docs.

obj = SendWithUs::Api.new( api_key: 'YOUR API KEY', debug: true )

Response Ranges

Sendwithus' API typically sends responses back in these ranges:

2xx – Successful Request
4xx – Failed Request (Client error)
5xx – Failed Request (Server error)

If you're receiving an error in the 400 response range follow these steps:

Double check the data and ID's getting passed to Sendwithus
Ensure your API key is correct
Log and check the body of the response

send_with_us

Development