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Satya Kalluri
Satya Kalluri

Reputation: 5214

Trouble sending emails with attachments with Rails 3.0.7

Am using rails 3.0.7 & Mail (gem) 2.2.19.

When I try to send the email with attachments, Instead of showing up as a downloadable attachment, I rather get the attachment as plain-text in the email.

I have 

attachments["example.png"] = File.read("path to image file")

I also tried

attachments["rails.png"] = {:content=>File.read("#{Rails.root}/public/images/rails.png"),
                            :mime_type=>"images/png"}

none of the above worked.

Can some one help me out of this mire.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 466

Answers (1)

Karolis
Karolis

Reputation: 2959

I had the same problem, and in my case the solution was to swap the attachment and mail lines. First attach, then call mail.

WRONG

def pdf_email(email, subject, pdfname, pdfpath)
  mail(:to => email, :subject => subject)
  attachments[pdfname] = File.read(pdfpath)
end

GOOD

def pdf_email(email, subject, pdfname, pdfpath)
  attachments[pdfname] = File.read(pdfpath)
  mail(:to => email, :subject => subject)
end

Upvotes: 1

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