Email creates new record in rails3?

I'm not really sure where to start with this one, but here is what I'm looking to do.

Lets say you've registered at a website (yourwebsite开发者_开发问答.com). Your username/email is joe@shmoe.com.

If you email newrecord@yourwebsite.com, I'd like a new record created by your user (meaning you have to email it from a registered user's email - such as joe@shmoe.com).

I'd also like to add some variables in the email body, that can be set to their respective fields in the new record.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

sure is possible - have a look at http://cloudmailin.com/ too - they do all the receiving side of things for you and then just 'post' the email into your application.

It's definitely possible - that functionality is available in basecamp.

I've never done it myself, but looks like this article describes how to process incoming emails in rails. Good luck!