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polarcare
polarcare

Reputation: 575

Rails - send email on button click

rails 4.1.1

I have an OrdersController and on the orders show action I have...

orders_controller.rb

def show
  @order = Order.find(params[:id])
  @client = Client.find(@order.client_id)

  if request.post?
    OrderMailer.order_send(@client, @order).deliver
    flash[:notice] = 'Order details sent!'
    redirect_to order_path(@order.id)
  end
end

Then on the view I have...

(show.haml)

= button_to "Send", @order

If I take the "OrderMailer" out of the if statement and visit the show/ order page, the email gets sent repeatedly until I close the dev server so I know the mailer part sends/ works ok.

I am just unsure how to tie the button click/send email together? I need a route but not sure how to tie it together if I already have a route for the orders/show page?

routes.rb

resources :orders, :path => 'orders'

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7973

Answers (2)

polarcare
polarcare

Reputation: 575

OK, with help of @steel here is code.

routes.rb(changed start to symbol)

get :send_order_mail, to: 'orders#send_order_mail', as: :send_order_mail

orders_controller.rb

def send_order_mail
  @order = Order.find(params[:id])
  @client = Customer.find(@order.client_id)

  OrderMailer.order_send(@order, @client).deliver
  flash[:notice] = "Order has been sent."
  redirect_to order_path(@order.id)
end

orders/show.html.erb has the link on it.

<%= link_to "Send Order by email", :controller => "orders", :action => "send_order_mail", :id => @order.id %>

mailers/order_mailer.rb

class OrderMailer < ActionMailer::Base

  add_template_helper(OrdersHelper)

  default from: "[email protected]"

  def order_send(order, client)
    @order = order
    @client = client
    mail(to: "#{@client.email}", subject: "Your subject")
  end
end

Upvotes: 5

steel
steel

Reputation: 12580

I'm not sure how to make your current method work, but there are several ways to do this. Here's one way I've used:

Set up your controller action:

orders_controller.rb

def send_order_mail
  @parameters = Model.get_parameters
  OrderMailer.name_of_action(@parameters).deliver
  # redirect code here
end

Set up your route:

get send_order_mail, to: 'orders_controller#send_order_mail', as: :send_order_mail

Then make your link.

link_to 'Send mail', send_order_mail_path, class: "big-button"

Upvotes: 5

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