Render Different View (template) for ActionMailer

Question

I'm trying to do a conditional render of a different template from ActionMailer (Rails 3.1.1). I want most users to get the normal welcome.html.erb template, but some users to get the special welcome_photographer.html.erb template. This type of thing works in ActionController:

# (in /app/mailers/user_mailer.rb)  def welcome(user)   @user = user   mail(:to => "#{@user.name} <#{@user.email}>", :subject => "Welcome to ...")   render "welcome_photographer" if @user.is_photographer end 

But the render doesn't work -- everyone gets the standard welcome.html.erb even if @user.is_photographer == true

Answer 1

You shouldn't try to do anything after you call mail(). However, to choose another template, you should pass :template_name as an option. For example:

template = @user.is_photographer ? "welcome_photographer" : "welcome" mail(:to => "#{@user.name} <#{@user.email}>",       :subject => "Welcome to ...",       :template_name => template) 

Answer 2

The solution from Sean Hill doesn't work for me (Rails 3.2+). template_name seems to be ignored. What worked for me is something like this:

mail(:to => "#{@user.name} <#{@user.email}>", :subject => "Welcome to ...") do |format|   format.html { render 'templatename' } end