Acts as Invitation

Make your Rails site virally Web 2.0 complaint by adding the acts_as_invitation plugin!

Acts as Invitation allows you to easily add "send to a friend" functionality to any of your model classes. You create a new class to represent the invitations sent. Then add has_many :invitations to your model.

Usage

Install the plugin with:

  script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/slantwise/acts_as_invitation/trunk acts_as_invitation

Run the included generator to create your invitation model.

  script/generate invitation Invitation

("Invitation" can be what ever you want — SendToFriend, Recommendation, etc.)

This will create an Invitation model and an InvitationMailer.

Open up the generated Invitation model to make any changes you need.

Your Invitation model can be polymorphic if you want to track invitations of multiple classes, or simply set it to belong_to a single model.

Then, change your models you want to be "inviteable", add has_many :invitations.

Finally, create your views and ensure your SMTP server is configure properly.