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hellion
hellion

Reputation: 4830

New rails 4.1 mailer preview action not found error

Rails has 607 open issues...so, rather than plugging that hole even more I though Id try here first. I have upgraded to 4.1 and am implementing rails mailer previews. I tried upgrading my existing mailer and adding tests/mailers/previews directory. When that gave the following error I tried generating a new mailer. Same error.

 class NotifierPreview < ActionMailer::Preview
    def welcome
      Notifier.welcome(User.first)
    end
  end

results in this error:

 The action 'notifier' could not be found for Rails::MailersController

I've tried searching google, the docs, stack overflow, but nothing eludes to this error.

Anyone experience this or have any ideas?

Upvotes: 29

Views: 11386

Answers (4)

Samuel
Samuel

Reputation: 2442

If you're using rspec, make sure that the rspec-rails gem is being loaded in the development environment, otherwise Rails will look for the previews under the /test folder, not /spec.

Upvotes: 6

Calvin
Calvin

Reputation: 1084

The default preview path is /test/mailers/previews but rspec will override this to be /spec/mailers/previews

You can set the path to be whatever you like with:

config.action_mailer.preview_path = "#{Rails.root}/test/mailers/previews"

Upvotes: 82

LpLrich
LpLrich

Reputation: 2533

Remove the line(s) 

get '/:controller(/:action(/:id))'
get '/:controller(/:action(/:id))(.:format)'

from your routes.rb

As @hellion says in a comment on the previous answer this is the solution to this problem.

Upvotes: 4

maximus ツ
maximus ツ

Reputation: 8065

This is because you are using UserMailer with NotifierPreview. Change NotifierPreview to UserMailerPreview and it will start working. Check the example implementation https://github.com/RichIsOnRails/ActionMailerPreviewsExample and tutorial.

Cheers!!

Upvotes: 7

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