kafka_mailer

Use Apache Kafka as a delivery_method in rails.

IMPORTANT: This is under development right now and is not yet ready for use in a production environment.

First add the gem to your development environment and run the +bundle+ command to install it.

gem "kafka_mailer"

Then set the delivery method in config/environments/development.rb

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :kafka

Now your emails will be sent to a kafka message queue.

Once you have the source, you must run the following:

bundle
bundle exec rake spec

Some items that will eventually need to be done:

• provide a config block that can specify the structure of the message being sent to kafka

• Ryan Bates and his letter_opener which was used as the base for this gem
• poseidon gem for interacting with Apache Kafka
• Apache kafka