Comments on: ActionMailer: Hacking multiple template paths http://www.quirkey.com/blog/2008/08/28/actionmailer-hacking-multiple-template-paths/ A Developer with too little time. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:38:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sorrow (Unforgiven.pl) http://www.quirkey.com/blog/2008/08/28/actionmailer-hacking-multiple-template-paths/comment-page-1/#comment-59867 Sorrow (Unforgiven.pl) Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:29:24 +0000 http://www.quirkey.com/blog/?p=168#comment-59867 Thanks for sharing this, but unfortunately it does not work with Rails 2.3.8 - an endless loop is entered, as ActionMailer::Base.template_root calls self.view_paths. The workaround is to replace @@view_paths||=[template_root] with @@view_paths||=ActionController::Base.view_paths This fix ends the endless loop, but causes an exception of private view_paths method being called for a subclass. Simply move view_paths (not self.view_paths) outside the private scope. Voila, done. Thanks for sharing this, but unfortunately it does not work with Rails 2.3.8 – an endless loop is entered, as ActionMailer::Base.template_root calls self.view_paths.
The workaround is to replace @@view_paths||=[template_root] with @@view_paths||=ActionController::Base.view_paths
This fix ends the endless loop, but causes an exception of private view_paths method being called for a subclass. Simply move view_paths (not self.view_paths) outside the private scope. Voila, done.

]]> By: Matt Royal http://www.quirkey.com/blog/2008/08/28/actionmailer-hacking-multiple-template-paths/comment-page-1/#comment-51218 Matt Royal Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:07:10 +0000 http://www.quirkey.com/blog/?p=168#comment-51218 Thanks for sharing this! The one problem I've run into with this method is that it will remove all helper functionality from ActionMailer (since ActionMailer::Helpers wraps ActionMailer::Base#initialize_template_class). To keep helpers, overwrite initialize_template_class_without_helpers instead. Thanks for sharing this! The one problem I’ve run into with this method is that it will remove all helper functionality from ActionMailer (since ActionMailer::Helpers wraps ActionMailer::Base#initialize_template_class). To keep helpers, overwrite initialize_template_class_without_helpers instead.

]]> By: sprewell http://www.quirkey.com/blog/2008/08/28/actionmailer-hacking-multiple-template-paths/comment-page-1/#comment-43001 sprewell Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:03:05 +0000 http://www.quirkey.com/blog/?p=168#comment-43001 I just had a problem related to this use of templates, where a ruby script that I was using to send periodic emails, outside of rails, stopped working with my host's upgrade to actionmailer 2.2.2 (with the following error - `create!': undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) ). After an hour or so of experimentation, I finally figured out that the only change that was necessary was to add this line to my script ActionMailer::Base.template_root = "." Make sure you add it outside of smtp_settings, as I was blindly doing at first. Actionmailer will then look for templates in the local path and not finding any, will ignore the templates (you may want to set a different directory than . if your local path has a lot of directories/files as it will actually search the whole local path for templates). I just had a problem related to this use of templates, where a ruby script that I was using to send periodic emails, outside of rails, stopped working with my host’s upgrade to actionmailer 2.2.2 (with the following error – `create!’: undefined method `[]‘ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) ). After an hour or so of experimentation, I finally figured out that the only change that was necessary was to add this line to my script

ActionMailer::Base.template_root = “.”

Make sure you add it outside of smtp_settings, as I was blindly doing at first. Actionmailer will then look for templates in the local path and not finding any, will ignore the templates (you may want to set a different directory than . if your local path has a lot of directories/files as it will actually search the whole local path for templates).

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