Rails for ActionMailer - How to disable a Layout for a certain mailer

Question

I have a user_mailer with a layout.

For one of my actionmailer methods I want the mailer to NOT use the default layout. But I can't see to find a setting for No Layout.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Simply specify in your mailer:

layout false 

You can also append :only => my_action (or :except) to limit the methods it applies to, like so:

layout false, :only => 'email_method_no_layout' 

(applicable API documentation)

Answer 2

I did it by using a small function, looking at the action name and return the correct mailer layout to be used:

class TransactionMailer < ApplicationMailer    layout :select_layout    def confirmation_email contact     #code   end    private   def select_layout     if action_name == 'confirmation_email'       false     else       'mailer'     end   end end