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| author | Matt Jankowski <mjankowski@thoughtbot.com> | 2011-06-21 09:04:28 -0400 |
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| committer | Matt Jankowski <mjankowski@thoughtbot.com> | 2011-06-21 09:04:28 -0400 |
| commit | 1f4fb6f6355bdf8f16f52c8803d8d26ddb1a81ef (patch) | |
| tree | 4933d7679463737de137c000cb7251f4a17cfcdd /actionmailer/lib | |
| parent | c01c954c20e64119ea73f3b71c4d843d66fda64e (diff) | |
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elaborate details on why to use _url instead of _path in mailers
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| -rw-r--r-- | actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb b/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb index e53f548523..490ffc00c3 100644 --- a/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb +++ b/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb @@ -122,8 +122,9 @@ module ActionMailer #:nodoc: # # <%= users_url(:host => "example.com") %> # - # You want to avoid using the <tt>name_of_route_path</tt> form of named routes because it doesn't - # make sense to generate relative URLs in email messages. + # You should use the <tt>named_route_url</tt> style (which generates absolute URLs) and avoid using the + # <tt>named_route_path</tt> style (which generates relative URLs), since clients reading the mail will + # have no concept of a current URL from which to determine a relative path. # # It is also possible to set a default host that will be used in all mailers by setting the <tt>:host</tt> # option as a configuration option in <tt>config/application.rb</tt>: |