CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user2012677
user2012677

Reputation: 5765

Best way to send registration email (DEVISE)

Devise allows you to customize mailers here. https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Use-custom-mailer.

However, I can also make a my own actionmailer like here. http://railscasts.com/episodes/206-action-mailer-in-rails-3

When a user registers on my site, I would like to send two different emails, one to myself with the registration information and one to the user to thank them for registering.

What is the best way to do this? or is there a method that devise has that would allow me to do this? I was thinking of creating a hook(call back) in the model after a user is created. However, that would mean if I manually create a record, the registration emails would also be sent out. I don't want an email to be sent out if I manually create a user. Any advice?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 654

Answers (2)

Billy Chan
Billy Chan

Reputation: 24815

3 workarounds if you don't want to send email to your manually created users.

  1. Create users at first, then add the hook.

  2. Add a special pattern on the email of your manually created users. Say (.*)[email protected]. You judge this pattern in the hook.

  3. Add a field in users table to check if the account is created by you. I really don't recommend this unless creating accounts is part of your daily job.

Upvotes: 1

Luís Ramalho
Luís Ramalho

Reputation: 10218

You could have a callback such as after_create :send_email_to_admin

def send_email_to_admin
  # your implementation
end

You would also put a conditional so it doesn't send an email when it's yourself creating the record manually. I do not think Devise offers such an option.

Upvotes: 1

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