ruby-on-railsrubyoutlookwin32ole

Sending formatted/html Outlook email with Ruby Win32ole

Is it possible to send formatted email, whether html or otherwise with Ruby's WIN32OLE - I have been able to send a plain text email through automation (as follows), but was hoping to be able to add some formatting. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

require 'win32ole'

@outlook = WIN32OLE.new('Outlook.Application')
email = @outlook.CreateItem(0)
email.Subject = 'Test Subject'
email.Body = 'Test Body'
email.To = 'recipient@example.com'
email.Save
email.Send
Solution

  • Pretty sure you need to use HTMLBody instead of Body as in:

    email.HTMLBody = '<h3>Test body in HTML format</h3>'