Githook Mailer is a Ruby application which distributes Git Webhooks to a user specified email address. In my case, this is a development group mailing list, though, it can be anything you'd like. This mostly replicates the normal emails that Github would send to a "watching" user but the address where the email is sent can be arbitrary.
Some people just prefer getting detailed emails instead of following along with projects on Github. For admins, this can present a challenge. Github doesn't really provide the ability to send out commit, issue, and pull request notifications to a mailing list. However, the webhooks api serves as a solution to this, provided you're willing to do a little work. Hopefully I've done that for you.
I am by no means an experienced Ruby or Heroku developer, so please feel free to fix my many mistakes with the correct way to do things or make enhancements.
The application can be deployed to a Heroku app assuming a number of environment variables are defined. The application uses Sinatra and receives webhooks to the address myserver.com/githook
The Heroku app should be completely configurable through the use of environment variables. The table below describes these configuration variables.
| Variable Name | Description |
|---|---|
EMAIL_TO |
Destination address. Send to multiple addresses by separating with a comma. |
EMAIL_FROM |
From address for the email being sent |
EMAIL_USER |
Username of the email account to use |
EMAIL_PASSWORD |
Password for specified email account |
EMAIL_SERVER |
Mail server to use for sending mail |
EMAIL_PORT |
Port to use for mail server |
EMAIL_SSL |
Set to 1 to use SSL, 0 to disable SSL |
Environment variables are defined via Heroku using:
heroku config:set VAR=value