ruby-on-railsrubymailchimpgibbon

How to work with mailchimp templates using ruby?

I'd like to work with mailchimp templetes with Ruby. I installed gem mailchimp-api and tried this:

mailchimp = Mailchimp::API.new(ENV['MAILCHIMP_API_KEY'])
lists = mailchimp.templates.list
list  = lists['data']
puts list

It returns lists = Hash (3 elements): 'user'= Empty Array, 'gallery'= Empty Array, 'base'= Empty Array, and as the result list = nil.

I installed gem gibbon and tried this:

gibbon = Gibbon::Request.new(api_key: ENV['MAILCHIMP_API_KEY'])
templates =  gibbon.templates.retrieve(params: {type: 'user'})
templates['templates'].each do |template|
  if template['name'] == 'my_template'
    id = template['id']

I get the template id, but gibbon.templates.info(template_id: id) returns # with @api_endpoint=nil. How can I recieve the template source and used it?

Many many thanks.

Solution

  • I found the solution. Mailchimp account can be linked with mandrill account to send transactional mails. The solution is to clone template from mailchimp to mandrill and use mandrill-api gem to load template body, like this: 

     mandrill = Mandrill::API.new(ENV["SMTP_PASSWORD"])
 body = mandrill.templates.render(template_name, [], vars )["html"]