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Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 238707

Rails: How to use ActionMailer by itself?

I am creating an app that will be used to send emails. I don't need to use regular mailers and view templates because I will simply be receiving the data that will be used to generate the email. However, I assume that there are some benefits to using ActionMailer instead of interacting with SMTP directly. I ran into issues while trying to instantiate a new instance of ActionMailer::Base. How can I use ActionMailer by itself without having to define a new class that extends ActionMailer::Base?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2735

Answers (3)

pixeltrix
pixeltrix

Reputation: 981

The underlying functionality for ActionMailer is provided by the mail gem. This allows you to send mail very simply, e.g:

Mail.deliver do
  from     '[email protected]'
  to       '[email protected]'
  subject  'Here is the image you wanted'
  body     File.read('body.txt')
  add_file :filename => 'somefile.png', :content => File.read('/somefile.png')
end

It supports delivery by all the same methods that ActionMailer does.

Upvotes: 7

tybro0103
tybro0103

Reputation: 49703

Ah, I think I better understand now. Basically you're looking for a simple one-liner similar to php's mail(), right?

If so, ActionMailer isn't making sense to you because it really isn't the right tool for this job.

I think the winner for you is a ruby gem called Pony: https://github.com/benprew/pony

example:

Pony.mail(:to => '[email protected]', :from => '[email protected]', :subject => 'hi', :body => 'Hello there.')

Upvotes: 2

ayckoster
ayckoster

Reputation: 6837

This is a most basic solution. You have to change smtp settings and the hard coded values to variables etc. This way you do not need to use a View. If you still want to use ERB I suggest you check out Railscast 206.

Just change this code, put it in a file like "test_email.rb" and call it with ruby test_email.rb

require 'action_mailer'

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
  :address              => "smtp.gmail.com",
  :port                 => 587,
  :domain               => "gmail.com",
  :user_name            => "testuser123",
  :password             => "secret",
  :authentication       => "plain",
  :enable_starttls_auto => true
}

class TestMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  default :from => "[email protected]"

  # def somemethod()
  #   mail(:to => "John Doe <[email protected]>", :subject => "TEST", :body => "HERE WE GO!!!")
  # end

  def mail(args)
    super
  end
end

# TestMailer.somemethod().deliver
TestMailer.mail(:to => "John Doe <[email protected]>", :subject => "TEST", :body => "HERE WE GO!!!")

Upvotes: 2

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