using rails 3, I want to learn how to create a ActionMailer Mail object and can't much docs online. I have the following work:
message_all = Mail.new(:from => 'frooooom', :to => 'tooooo', :cc => 'cccccccc', :subject => 'SUBJECTasddsadsadasdsa')
Question is now, how do I add a HTML and TEXT Body to that? Bonus points for also showing an example of how to add attachements.
Thank you!
Have you tried the mail gem's documentation? This example is mostly pulled from there:
message_all = Mail.new do
to 'nicolas#test.lindsaar.net.au'
from 'Mikel Lindsaar <mikel#test.lindsaar.net.au>'
subject 'First multipart email sent with Mail'
text_part do
body 'This is plain text'
end
html_part do
content_type 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
body '<h1>This is HTML</h1>'
end
end
I believe you can still pass the headers in a hash as you were doing before, but the text_part/html_part business should go in the block.
Info on attachments is in that link I provided above.
Google '"rails 3" email templates" yields this:
http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#sending-multipart-emails
Check out section 2.7 on sending multi-part emails.
Related
When I send an email with a attached pdf file the email only shows a file called 'Noname'. The file itself is the multipart section of the email with the base64 attached pdf. How can I send the PDF so it comes up as an attachment and doesn't corrupt the email?
Here is my code:
attachments['126539_statistics.pdf'] = File.read("app/assets/pdfs/126539_statistics.pdf")
mail(:to => email, :subject => subject, :body => message, :content_type => 'application/pdf')
I had face same problem. I have corrected it by following way
1) As per ActionMailer Guide, You need to make view file into app/views/[action_mailer_model_name]/[method_name]
Here is reference of guide: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionMailer/Base.html
2) Action Mailer is smart enough that it identify content-type automatically while reading file. So there is no need to pass explicitly 'application/pdf' in your mail function.
Hope, this information helps to solve your problem
Also experienced the same problem
solution is :
set Attachments before sending mail function.
code is attached below:
attachments["invoice_#{invoice.bill_date.strftime('%B-%Y')}.pdf"] = WickedPdf.new.pdf_from_string(
render_to_string pdf: 'project_report.pdf',
template: 'users/_invoice.html.erb'
)
mail(to: email , from: from, subject: subject) do |format|
format.html
end
The following code seems to work if there is one user, but truncate the email for multiple users:
users.each do |user|
mail(
:to => user.email,
:subject => 'Hi',
:template_name => 'notification'
).deliver
Is this the proper way to send a few emails?
Ruby on Rails 3.2.2
Heroku
SendGrid
I think this is what you're looking for:
def my_mailer_method
users = User.find({ ... })
headers['X-SMTPAPI'] = { :to => users.to_a }.to_json
mail(
:to => "this.will#be.ignored.com",
:subject => "Hi",
:template_name => "notification"
).deliver
end
This sends a message to any number of recipients use the SendGrid's SMTP API. You can find further information on the docs page.
You might also want to take a look at the sendgrid rails gem
To send email to multiple users: pass an array
Replace
:to => user.email
with
:to => users.map(&:email)
more > rails guide
If it is not important for you to hide email addresses from each other, you can specify recipients in a comma delimited string.
It seems that the problem is that each instance of the Mailer can only send one email. Perhaps the mail object is falling out of scope and getting cleaned up by the garbage collector...
The solution that worked was to iterate over the users outside of the Mailer, and call it once for each user. It may be slow but it should happen in the background anyway so it's fine.
Anyone know why rails, places attachments at the top of the email and not the bottom?
Mac Mail, and the Iphone for example show the attachments at the top of the email and not at the bottom, which is very strange.
My user_mailer.rb looks like this:
def error_email
attachments['message.html'] = {:mime_type => 'text/html', :content => message_text }
mail(:to => #message_from, :subject => 'reason whyxxxx')
end
How can I get the attachment at the bottom of the email msg?
Thanks
I've run into this before. A quick fix is to do this in your mailer method to reverse the order of the email parts.
message = mail(:to => #message_from, :subject => 'reason whyxxxx')
message.parts.reverse!
You can sort the parts whichever way you want like this:
body.set_sort_order(order)
body.sort_parts!
-- where order defaults to ['text/plain', 'text/enriched', 'text/html', 'multipart/alternative'].
However this sorts on content type, as far as I can tell, so if your attachment has the same content type as the text part it won't make any difference.
I use one layout for all my emails in my Notifier model (20+ emails)... however sometimes I just want to send a plain text email with no layout or html at all. I can't seem to be able to figure out how? If I try to send a plain text email i still get the layout, and all the HTML in the email.
I'm using Rails 2.3.8.
I read about this monkey patch here... but it seemed to indicate a newer version of rails had over come this? And I don't really wanna monkey patch if I can avoid one.
Rails - setting multiple layouts for a multipart email with mailer templates
layout "email" # use email.text.(html|plain).erb as the layout
def welcome_email(property)
subject 'New Signup'
recipients property.email
from 'welcome#test.com'
body :property => property
content_type "text/html"
end
def send_inquiry(inquire)
subject "#{inquire.the_subject}"
recipients inquire.ob.email
from "Test on behalf of #{inquire.name} <#{inquire.email}>"
body :inquire => inquire
content_type "text/plain"
end
I also have 2 files.
email.text.html.erb
email.text.plain.erb
It always uses text.html.erb... even if the content_type is "text/plain"
edit: Figured it out, the layouts follow a different naming scheme to the email templates. Just rename them as follows:
layout.text.html.erb => layout.html.erb
layout.text.plain.erb => layout.text.erb
I also made the mistake of manually defining the parts, if you use this:
part :content_type => 'text/plain',
:body => render_message('my_template')
Then Rails can't determine the content_type for your part and it assumes it's HTML.
After I changed those two things it worked for me!
original reply follows..
I've struggled with this question many times in the past, usually ending up with some sort of non-dry quick and dirty solution. I always thought I was the only one with this problem because Google turns up exactly nothing useful on the subject.
This time I decided to dig into Rails to figure it out but so far without much success, but maybe my findings will help someone else figure this out.
What I found was that in ActionMailer::Base the #render_message method is tasked with determining the proper content_type and should assign it to #current_template_content_type. #default_template_format then either returns the proper mime type for the layout or, if #current_template_content_type isn't set, it will default to :html.
This is what ActionMailer::Base#render_message looks like in my app (2.3.5)
def render_message(method_name, body)
if method_name.respond_to?(:content_type)
#current_template_content_type = method_name.content_type
end
render :file => method_name, :body => body
ensure
#current_template_content_type = nil
end
The trouble is that method_name appears to be a string (the name of the local view, in my case "new_password.text.html") and strings of course do not respond_to #content_type, meaning #current_template_content_type will always remain nil, and so the #default_template_format will always default to :html.
Not much closer to an actual solution, I know. The ActionMailer internals are just too opaque for me.
OK, not sure if this works, but it seems the default content_type is text/plain, so you would only need to set the content type if you want something other than text/plain.
Try this:
def send_inquiry(inquire)
subject "#{inquire.the_subject}"
recipients inquire.ob.email
from "Test on behalf of #{inquire.name} <#{inquire.email}>"
body :inquire => inquire
end
I still think you should consider this:
layout "email", :except => [:send_inquiry]
I would use the above because the plain text email does not seem to have a 'layout', only the actual content you want to send.
I found this that I think could be useful.
http://blog.blazingcloud.net/2009/11/17/simple-email-form-with-actionmailer/
He makes use of renaming the view templates for different content types.
I have successfully created an email that sends on creation of a Kase, but now I need to attach a PDF that is created on the fly by Prawn and Prawno. Basically when you visit a kase such as application.com/kase/1 you just append the URL with .pdf i.e. application.com/kase/1.
I spent ages getting the PDF to work and look how I wanted, but I can't figure out how to add the PDF to an auto sending email - mainly because I cannot work out how to give it a link as it's auto generated.
Has anyone ever managed to get this to work?
Thanks,
Danny
I suppose it would be better if you store generated pdf somewhere - for caching purposes, etc.
But with current configuration, you can read generated page with Net::HTTP and attach response:
require 'net/http'
def your_mailer_method(record)
#...
attachment "application/pdf" do |a|
a.body = Net::HTTP.get('yourdomain.com', "/kase/#{record.id}.pdf")
a.filename="your_pdf_name.pdf"
end
end
You really should consider just not using Prawnto, and creating a subclass of Prawn::Document to do what you need. Then, in both your controller and your mailer code, it should just be:
MyReport.new.render
See the Prawn documentation on this:
http://wiki.github.com/sandal/prawn/using-prawn-in-rails
For the newer ones, you dont really need to send a request again, when you can ::
mail.attachments["invoice.pdf"] = {:mime_type => "application/pdf" , :content => pdf_generator}
Instead of doing this ::
send_data pdf.render , :filename => file_name_here , :type => "application/pdf"
just do this ::
pdf.render , :filename => file_name_here , :type => "application/pdf"
Do not send_data, just render that pdf in your email attachment as mentioned in the first snippet.
In fact, i just wrote a Gist on github.
This code works for me
def send_file(file, subject, text, to_email)
#subject = subject
#text = text
attachments["#{invoice.invoice_number}.pdf"] = file
from_email = abc#xyz.com
mail(:to => to_email, :from => from_email, :subject=> subject)
end