In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing MailForm on Arch Linux. MailForm is a simple Ruby script that allows you to send email forms from your website.
Before starting, you will need to have the following:
If Git is not already installed on your system, you can use the following command to install it:
sudo pacman -S git
Use Git to clone MailForm repository:
git clone https://github.com/Feuerhamster/mailform.git
This will clone the MailForm repository into a new directory named mailform.
MailForm requires certain dependencies to function properly. Run the following command in the mailform directory to install the required gems:
cd mailform
bundle install
To configure MailForm, you need to edit the mailform.rb file. Use your preferred text editor to open the file:
nano mailform.rb
In this file, you will see a number of different options which you can modify to suit your needs.
To deploy MailForm, simply copy the mailform.rb file to your web server's document root directory. You can use the following command to copy the file:
cp mailform.rb /var/www/html/
To test if MailForm is working, create a simple HTML form that includes the fields you need. You will need to modify the action parameter of the form to point to the location of the mailform.rb script on your server.
For example, if you copied the mailform.rb file to the /var/www/html/ directory, the action parameter will be:
<form action="/mailform.rb" method="post">
Once you have created the HTML form, submit it to test if MailForm is working properly.
Congratulations! You have now installed MailForm on Arch Linux.
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