Action Mailer: How do I render dynamic data in an email body that is stored in the database?
- by Brandon Toone
I have Action Mailer setup to render an email using the body attribute of my Email model (in the database). I want to be able to use erb in the body but I can't figure out how to get it to render in the sent email message.
I'm able to get the body as a string with this code
# models/user_mailer.rb
def custom_email(user, email_id)
email = Email.find(email_id)
recipients user.email
from "Mail It Example <[email protected]>"
subject "Hello From Mail It"
sent_on Time.now
# pulls the email body and passes a string to the template views/user_mailer/customer_email.text.html.erb
body :msg => email.body
end
I came across this article http://rails-nutshell.labs.oreilly.com/ch05.html which says I can use render but I'm only able to get render :text to work and not render :inline
# models/user_mailer.rb
def custom_email(user, email_id)
email = Email.find(email_id)
recipients user.email
from "Mail It Example <[email protected]>"
subject "Hello From Mail It"
sent_on Time.now
# body :msg => email.body
body :msg => (render :text => "Thanks for your order") # renders text and passes as a variable to the template
# body :msg => (render :inline => "We shipped <%= Time.now %>") # throws a NoMethodError
end
