How to use the Hominid Ruby gem to send newsletters through MailChimp’s API

This example uses an existing campaign as a template for subsequent campaigns: ```ruby require 'hominid' # https://github.com/terra-firma/hominid key = 'xxx' # MailChimp API key h = Hominid::API.new(key, {:secure => true, :timeout => 60}) # # List campaigns & templates # campaigns = h.campaigns templates = h.templates lists = h.lists # From the lists above campaign_id = '111' list_id = '222' template_id = 333 # # Create a campaign # # http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/1.3/campaigncreate.func.php options = { :list_id => list_id, :template_id => template_id, :subject => 'xxx' } campaign = h.campaign_create('regular', options, content) # # Copy a campaign # new_campaign_id = h.campaign_replicate(campaign_id) # # Update a campaign # html_title = 'XXX' html_description = 'Hello!' html_content = %Q{

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} # # In this example we have a template with 3 editable content areas # that are marked with mc:edit="title", mc:edit="description", mc:edit="content" # See templates documentation for details # content = { 'html_title' => html_title, 'html_description' => html_description, 'html_content' => html_content } result = h.campaign_update(new_campaign_id, :content, content) # # Send a campaign # # http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/1.3/campaignsendnow.func.php # http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/1.3/campaignsendtest.func.php # result = h.campaign_send_now(new_campaign_id, %w([email protected])) # # Templates # # http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/getting-started-with-mailchimps-template-language # http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/template-language-creating-editable-content-areas/ # # View available content areas: # result = h.campaign_template_content(new_campaign_id) ```