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diff --git a/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb b/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb
index a70bf1544a..23139bcbe8 100644
--- a/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb
+++ b/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb
@@ -15,11 +15,17 @@ module ActionMailer
#
# $ rails generate mailer Notifier
#
- # The generated model inherits from <tt>ActionMailer::Base</tt>. A mailer model defines methods
+ # The generated model inherits from <tt>ApplicationMailer</tt> which in turn
+ # inherits from <tt>ActionMailer::Base</tt>. A mailer model defines methods
# used to generate an email message. In these methods, you can setup variables to be used in
# the mailer views, options on the mail itself such as the <tt>:from</tt> address, and attachments.
#
- # class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base
+ # class ApplicationMailer < ActionMailer::Base
+ # default from: 'from@exmaple.com'
+ # layout 'mailer'
+ # end
+ #
+ # class Notifier < ApplicationMailer
# default from: 'no-reply@example.com',
# return_path: 'system@example.com'
#
@@ -84,7 +90,7 @@ module ActionMailer
# name as the method in your mailer model. For example, in the mailer defined above, the template at
# <tt>app/views/notifier/welcome.text.erb</tt> would be used to generate the email.
#
- # Variables defined in the methods of your mailer model are accessible as instance variables in their
+ # Variables defined in the methods of your mailer model are accessible as instance variables in their
# corresponding view.
#
# Emails by default are sent in plain text, so a sample view for our model example might look like this:
@@ -178,7 +184,7 @@ module ActionMailer
#
# Sending attachment in emails is easy:
#
- # class ApplicationMailer < ActionMailer::Base
+ # class Notifier < ApplicationMailer
# def welcome(recipient)
# attachments['free_book.pdf'] = File.read('path/to/file.pdf')
# mail(to: recipient, subject: "New account information")
@@ -194,7 +200,7 @@ module ActionMailer
# If you need to send attachments with no content, you need to create an empty view for it,
# or add an empty body parameter like this:
#
- # class ApplicationMailer < ActionMailer::Base
+ # class Notifier < ApplicationMailer
# def welcome(recipient)
# attachments['free_book.pdf'] = File.read('path/to/file.pdf')
# mail(to: recipient, subject: "New account information", body: "")
@@ -206,7 +212,7 @@ module ActionMailer
# You can also specify that a file should be displayed inline with other HTML. This is useful
# if you want to display a corporate logo or a photo.
#
- # class ApplicationMailer < ActionMailer::Base
+ # class Notifier < ApplicationMailer
# def welcome(recipient)
# attachments.inline['photo.png'] = File.read('path/to/photo.png')
# mail(to: recipient, subject: "Here is what we look like")
@@ -245,7 +251,7 @@ module ActionMailer
# Action Mailer provides some intelligent defaults for your emails, these are usually specified in a
# default method inside the class definition:
#
- # class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base
+ # class Notifier < ApplicationMailer
# default sender: 'system@example.com'
# end
#
@@ -263,7 +269,7 @@ module ActionMailer
# As you can pass in any header, you need to either quote the header as a string, or pass it in as
# an underscored symbol, so the following will work:
#
- # class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base
+ # class Notifier < ApplicationMailer
# default 'Content-Transfer-Encoding' => '7bit',
# content_description: 'This is a description'
# end
@@ -271,7 +277,7 @@ module ActionMailer
# Finally, Action Mailer also supports passing <tt>Proc</tt> objects into the default hash, so you
# can define methods that evaluate as the message is being generated:
#
- # class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base
+ # class Notifier < ApplicationMailer
# default 'X-Special-Header' => Proc.new { my_method }
#
# private
@@ -296,7 +302,7 @@ module ActionMailer
# This may be useful, for example, when you want to add default inline attachments for all
# messages sent out by a certain mailer class:
#
- # class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base
+ # class Notifier < ApplicationMailer
# before_action :add_inline_attachment!
#
# def welcome
@@ -703,7 +709,7 @@ module ActionMailer
# The main method that creates the message and renders the email templates. There are
# two ways to call this method, with a block, or without a block.
#
- # It accepts a headers hash. This hash allows you to specify
+ # It accepts a headers hash. This hash allows you to specify
# the most used headers in an email message, these are:
#
# * +:subject+ - The subject of the message, if this is omitted, Action Mailer will