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,

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• ruby-on-rails-3

I so agree with this organization strategy!

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

class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  default :from => "whatever@whatever.com"
  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!

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 <hq@whatever.com>"
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).

I had some luck with this in 3.1

class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  ...
  append_view_path("#{Rails.root}/app/views/mailers")
  ...
end 

Got deprecation warnings on template_root and RAILS_ROOT

If you happen to need something really flexible, inheritance can help you.

class ApplicationMailer < ActionMailer::Base

  def self.inherited(subclass)
    subclass.default template_path: "mailers/#{subclass.name.to_s.underscore}"
  end

end

You can put the templates wherever you want, but you will have to specify it in the mailer. Something like this:

class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  default :from => "whatever@whatever.com"

  def whatever_email(user)
    @user = user
    @url  = "http://whatever.com"
    mail(:to => user.email,
         :subject => "Welcome to Whatever",
         :template_path => '**your_path**',
         )
  end
end

Take a look at 2.4 Mailer Views for more info.