- Implement comprehensive email notification system for ticket purchases and event reminders
- Add event reminder job with configurable scheduling
- Enhance ticket mailer with QR code generation and proper formatting
- Update order model with email delivery tracking
- Add comprehensive test coverage for all email functionality
- Configure proper mailer settings and disable annotations
- Update backlog to reflect completed email features
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The '>' characters at the end of emails were caused by Rails development
mode adding HTML comment annotations to rendered views, including email
templates. This creates comments like '<!-- END app/views/...erb -->'
which can appear as stray characters in email clients.
Solution:
- Add initializer to disable view annotations specifically for ActionMailer
- Preserves debugging annotations for regular views
- Ensures clean email formatting in development mode
- No impact on production where annotations are disabled by default
The emails will now render cleanly without extra HTML comments or
stray characters at the end.
This commit implements a complete email notifications system for purchase
confirmations and event reminders as requested in the medium priority
backlog tasks.
## Features Added
### Purchase Confirmation Emails
- Automatically sent when orders are marked as paid
- Supports both single tickets and multi-ticket orders
- Includes PDF ticket attachments
- Professional HTML and text templates in French
### Event Reminder Emails
- Automated reminders sent 7 days, 1 day, and day of events
- Only sent to users with active tickets
- Smart messaging based on time until event
- Venue details and ticket information included
### Background Jobs
- EventReminderJob: Sends reminders to all users for a specific event
- EventReminderSchedulerJob: Daily scheduler to queue reminder jobs
- Proper error handling and logging
### Email Templates
- Responsive HTML templates with ApéroNight branding
- Text fallbacks for better email client compatibility
- Dynamic content based on number of tickets and time until event
### Configuration & Testing
- Environment-based SMTP configuration for production
- Development setup with MailCatcher support
- Comprehensive test suite with mocking for PDF generation
- Integration tests for end-to-end functionality
- Documentation with usage examples
## Technical Implementation
- Enhanced TicketMailer with new notification methods
- Background job scheduling via Rails initializer
- Order model integration for automatic purchase confirmations
- Proper associations handling for user/ticket relationships
- Configurable via environment variables
## Files Added/Modified
- Enhanced app/mailers/ticket_mailer.rb with order support
- Added app/jobs/event_reminder_*.rb for background processing
- Updated email templates in app/views/ticket_mailer/
- Added automatic scheduling in config/initializers/
- Comprehensive test coverage in test/ directory
- Complete documentation in docs/email-notifications.md
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- Document various invoice generation approaches (PDF, HTML-to-PDF, Stripe)
- Compare Stripe Payment Intents vs Invoicing vs Checkout Sessions
- Provide complete code implementation with models, controllers, services
- Include phase-by-phase implementation strategy for current use case
- Add testing, security, and deployment guidelines
- Recommend hybrid approach: keep current checkout + post-payment invoices
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- Create new TicketsController with actions for name collection, creation, and checkout
- Add dedicated ticket views (new.html.erb, checkout.html.erb, show.html.erb)
- Update ticket_selection_controller.js to handle form submission via AJAX
- Add store_cart endpoint in EventsController for session-based cart management
- Update routes to support new ticket flow: /tickets/new, /create, /checkout
- Fix attribute name consistency across views (title→name, starts_at→start_time)
- Add Stripe checkout integration with proper error handling
- Remove deprecated collect_names flow in favor of streamlined approach
The flow is now: Event selection → AJAX cart storage → Name collection → Checkout → Payment
- Enhanced events index page with improved visual design and better information display
- Completely redesigned event show page with modern layout, ticket selection, and checkout functionality
- Implemented Stripe payment processing for ticket purchases
- Created ticket generation system with PDF tickets and QR codes
- Added email confirmation system with ticket attachments
- Updated database configuration to use SQLite for easier development setup
- Fixed gem dependencies and resolved conflicts
- Improved error handling throughout the checkout process
- Enhanced Stimulus controller for ticket cart management
- Added proper redirect handling for successful and cancelled payments
