partner_friendly

PartnerFriendly

Are you a marketer? PartnerFriendly is for you.

When savvy users register for applications, they append their email with strings like "+yourapp" preceding their domain.

Users do this to identify your organization if they receive unsolicited email from one of your marketing partners, such as a co-branded newsletter.

PartnerFriendly neutralizes this issue by removing such identifiers, transforming

--->

upon entry to your database.

Installation

Add to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'partner_friendly'

Then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install partner_friendly

Usage

In your User model, add:

...
    before_validation :clean
...
    def clean
        PartnerFriendly::Process.clean(self)
    end

FAQ

The user may try to trick the system with multiple identifiers,

however this just yields:

ProTip: opting for before_save or before_create instead of before_validation may throw a nasty database error:

In this case, simply rescue from the error with a redirect or existing authentication flash for "user already exists."

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome.

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/ryanckulp/partnerfriendly/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.