I'm trying to send an email attachment using action mailer in ruby on rails and I keep getting this error. The problem seems to be that it can't locate the file in the directory I specified, but the file path is valid. I also checked this using File.exist?
in the console and confirmed that the path provided evaluates to true.
Here is my mailer:
class OrderMailer < ApplicationMailer
def purchase(order)
@order = order
attachments[ 'files.zip'] = File.read(Rails.root + '/public/albums/files.zip')
mail to: order.email, subject: "Order Confirmation"
end
end
I also installed the mail gem to handle encoding, as advised by the Action Mailer documentation.
Any help would be much appreciated, -Brian
Rails.root
returns a Pathname
object. Pathname#+(string)
will File.join
the string
to the path if it is relative; if string
represents an absolute path (i.e. starts with a slash), the path gets replaced.
Pathname.new('/tmp') + 'foo'
# => #<Pathname:/tmp/foo>
Pathname.new('/tmp') + '/foo'
# => #<Pathname:/foo>
This means, you are reading from the wrong path: you wanted to read /path/to/app/public/albums/files.zip
, but you are actually reading /public/albums/files.zip
, which likely shouldn't exist.
Solution: make sure you are appending the relative path:
Rails.root + 'public/albums/files.zip'
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