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ActionMailer Cheatsheet

ActionMailer is the Rails framework which handles email delivery. This comprehensive cheatsheet will help your email on its way.

Mailer Model - emails are defined by creating methods within the mailer model
Delivering email - deliver emails or create and save them for future delivery
Multipart messages - how to send multipart messages
Views & Templates - each mailer has a corresponding view
Mailer Configuration Methods - use in your mailer model to define an email
URL Generation - generate URLs to be used in your mailer view template
ActionMailer Configuration - configure Action Mailer

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Mailer Model

To use ActionMailer, you need to create a mailer model. Emails are defined by creating methods within the mailer model which are then used to set variables to be used in the mail template, to change options on the mail, or to add attachments.

Mailer model generator

    ruby script/generate mailer NameOfMailer method1 method2 method3

Example mailer model

    class OrderMailer < ActionMailer::Base

        def confirm(order,sent_at = Time.now)
            subject    "Subject line goes here"
            body       :order => order
            recipients ["bill@microsoft.com", "steve@apple.com"]
            from       "david@dizzy.co.uk"
            sent_on    sent_at
        end    
    end