Sends you an email every day, prompting you to write a diary entry. Email responses are saved in a database.
- Click on the Heroku Button to create your app.
- Run the database migrations:
heroku run rake db:migrate -a your-app-name- Configure Mailgun, by first opening up the addon SSO, then in the Mailgun interface add a new route.
heroku addons:open mailgun -a your-app-name
- Configure the Heroku scheduler to send out the daily emails.
heroku addons:open scheduler
- Lastly set some configuration variables. Set
TO_EMAILto your email address, andFROM_EMAILto the email address Mailgun generated for you.
heroku config:set TO_EMAIL=test@example.com
heroku config:set FROM_EMAIL=oped@appid.mailgun.orgTo test Oped, run rake prompt. An email should be sent to you. Any replies to this email will be saved in the posts table.
heroku run rake promptTo exports posts:
# Table Preview
heroku run rake posts:table | less
# Export to CSV
heroku run rake posts:csv > posts.csv