mailgun_email_validator

This gem adds a validates_as_email_with_mailgun method to ActiveRecord. It first tries to verify an e-mail using the amazing Mailgun e-mail validation API and then falls back to using the spectator_validates_email gem if it can't connect.

Add the gem to your Rails project's Gemfile, then bundle install to get started.

gem 'mailgun_email_validator'

You'll need to add a MAILGUN_PUBLIC_KEY environmental variable to your system, for instance in your ~/.bash_profile:

export MAILGUN_PUBLIC_KEY='f23oifj3ojo2j3ofj32ijoj2iojf3iojoi2f32'

Alternatively, you can configure mailgun with an initializer:

In config/initializers/mailgun_email_validator.rb:

MailgunEmailValidator.mailgun_public_key = 'f23oifj3ojo2j3ofj32ijoj2iojf3iojoi2f32'

Note: This is not a real Mailgun public key

To use mailgun_email_validator inside your models:

validates_as_email_with_mailgun :email

You can also specify many of the usual ActiveRecord validation options including :on, :allow_nil, :allow_blank, and :message.

There is also a helper method available on all models:

MyModel#valid_email_with_mailgun?(email) => true/false

Pull requests welcome.

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet.
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it.
• Fork the project.
• Start a feature/bugfix branch.
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution.
• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so we don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Send in a pull request!

• Zach Feldman @zachfeldman
• Matt Walters @mattwalters (Added helper method, ability to config with an initializer.)