Pablo Fernandez

Call to Buzz, like many applications I developed before, sends emails. Lot’s of emails. To avoid accidentally emailing a customer or random person I use mail_safe. It’s one of the first gems I install on a Rails project and you should too. mail_safe re-writes the to-header so you end up receiving all the emails that you sent.

Once you are receiving all these emails, there’s another problem. They are likely to have exactly the same subject, so, mail clients are likely to group them in threads, which can be annoying. To avoid that, I added this to my ApplicationMailer class and voila! all emails have a unique subject:

if Rails.env.development?
  after_action :uniq_subjects_in_development

  def uniq_subjects_in_development
    mail.subject += " #{SecureRandom.uuid}"
  end
end