Rails mailer views in separated directory

Question

I have small organizatoric issue, in my application I have 3 mailer User_mailer, prduct_mailer, some_other_mailer and all of them store their views in app/views/user_mailer ...

I will want to have a subdirectory in /app/views/ called mailers and put all in the folders user_mailer, product_mailer and some_other_mailer.

Thanks,

Answer 1

You should really create an ApplicationMailer class with your defaults and inherit from that in your mailers:

# app/mailers/application_mailer.rb class ApplicationMailer < ActionMailer::Base   append_view_path Rails.root.join('app', 'views', 'mailers')   default from: "Whatever HQ <[email protected]>" end  # app/mailers/user_mailer.rb class UserMailer < ApplicationMailer   def say_hi(user)     # ...   end end  # app/views/mailers/user_mailer/say_hi.html.erb <b>Hi @user.name!</b> 

This lovely pattern uses the same inheritance scheme as controllers (e.g. ApplicationController < ActionController::Base).

Answer 2

I so agree with this organization strategy!

And from Nobita's example, I achieved it by doing:

class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base   default :from => "[email protected]"   default :template_path => '**your_path**'    def whatever_email(user)     @user = user     @url  = "http://whatever.com"     mail(:to => user.email,          :subject => "Welcome to Whatever",          )   end end 

It is Mailer-specific but not too bad!