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Posts from ‘February, 2009’

Receiving emails in Rails using Gmail & IMAP, while staying efficient and RESTful.

For a recent project I had a need to receive emails (actually MMSs, but that’ll be the subject of a future post) in a Rails application. My requirements for the solution were:

Shouldn’t require root access: I’m deploying this app to a shared hosting service on which I don’t have root.
Shouldn’t require firing up the Rails [...]