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diff --git a/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.md b/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.md index a025fb773a..cb07781d1c 100644 --- a/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.md +++ b/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.md @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ $ bin/rails db:migrate Now that we have a user model to play with, we will just edit the `app/controllers/users_controller.rb` make it instruct the `UserMailer` to deliver an email to the newly created user by editing the create action and inserting a -call to `UserMailer.welcome_email` right after the user is successfully saved. +call to `UserMailer.with(user: @user).welcome_email` right after the user is successfully saved. Action Mailer is nicely integrated with Active Job so you can send emails outside of the request-response cycle, so the user doesn't have to wait on it: @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ class UsersController < ApplicationController respond_to do |format| if @user.save # Tell the UserMailer to send a welcome email after save - UserMailer.welcome_email.with(user: @user).deliver_later + UserMailer.with(user: @user).welcome_email.deliver_later format.html { redirect_to(@user, notice: 'User was successfully created.') } format.json { render json: @user, status: :created, location: @user } @@ -226,6 +226,11 @@ class SendWeeklySummary end ``` +Any key value pair passed to `with` just becomes the `params` for the mailer +action. So `with(user: @user, account: @user.account)` makes `params[:user]` and +`params[:account]` available in the mailer action. Just like controllers have +params. + The method `welcome_email` returns an `ActionMailer::MessageDelivery` object which can then just be told `deliver_now` or `deliver_later` to send itself out. The `ActionMailer::MessageDelivery` object is just a wrapper around a `Mail::Message`. If @@ -477,7 +482,7 @@ special URL that renders them. In the above example, the preview class for ```ruby class UserMailerPreview < ActionMailer::Preview def welcome_email - UserMailer.welcome_email.with(user: User.first) + UserMailer.with(user: User.first).welcome_email end end ``` |