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diff --git a/actionmailer/README.rdoc b/actionmailer/README.rdoc index 14d20bb08d..9b206fbcc7 100644 --- a/actionmailer/README.rdoc +++ b/actionmailer/README.rdoc @@ -72,6 +72,19 @@ Or you can just chain the methods together like: Notifier.welcome.deliver # Creates the email and sends it immediately +== Setting defaults + +It is possible to set default values that will be used in every method in your Action Mailer class. To implement this functionality, you just call the public class method <tt>default</tt> which you get for free from ActionMailer::Base. This method accepts a Hash as the parameter. You can use any of the headers e-mail messages has, like <tt>:from</tt> as the key. You can also pass in a string as the key, like "Content-Type", but Action Mailer does this out of the box for you, so you wont need to worry about that. Finally it is also possible to pass in a Proc that will get evaluated when it is needed. + +Note that every value you set with this method will get over written if you use the same key in your mailer method. + +Example: + + class Authenticationmailer < ActionMailer::Base + default :from => "awesome@application.com", :subject => Proc.new { "E-mail was generated at #{Time.now}" } + ..... + end + == Receiving emails To receive emails, you need to implement a public instance method called <tt>receive</tt> that takes an |