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diff --git a/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb b/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb
index 135cf35ac0..53cc1fdb31 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'
#
@@ -39,11 +45,8 @@ module ActionMailer
# in the same manner as <tt>attachments[]=</tt>
#
# * <tt>headers[]=</tt> - Allows you to specify any header field in your email such
- # as <tt>headers['X-No-Spam'] = 'True'</tt>. Note, while most fields like <tt>To:</tt>
- # <tt>From:</tt> can only appear once in an email header, other fields like <tt>X-Anything</tt>
- # can appear multiple times. If you want to change a field that can appear multiple times,
- # you need to set it to nil first so that Mail knows you are replacing it and not adding
- # another field of the same name.
+ # as <tt>headers['X-No-Spam'] = 'True'</tt>. Note that declaring a header multiple times
+ # will add many fields of the same name. Read #headers doc for more information.
#
# * <tt>headers(hash)</tt> - Allows you to specify multiple headers in your email such
# as <tt>headers({'X-No-Spam' => 'True', 'In-Reply-To' => '1234@message.id'})</tt>
@@ -87,7 +90,8 @@ 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 model are accessible as instance variables in the view.
+ # 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:
#
@@ -128,19 +132,25 @@ module ActionMailer
#
# config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: "example.com" }
#
- # When you decide to set a default <tt>:host</tt> for your mailers, then you need to make sure to use the
- # <tt>only_path: false</tt> option when using <tt>url_for</tt>. Since the <tt>url_for</tt> view helper
- # will generate relative URLs by default when a <tt>:host</tt> option isn't explicitly provided, passing
- # <tt>only_path: false</tt> will ensure that absolute URLs are generated.
- #
# = Sending mail
#
# Once a mailer action and template are defined, you can deliver your message or create it and save it
# for delivery later:
#
- # Notifier.welcome(david).deliver # sends the email
- # mail = Notifier.welcome(david) # => a Mail::Message object
- # mail.deliver # sends the email
+ # Notifier.welcome(User.first).deliver_now # sends the email
+ # mail = Notifier.welcome(User.first) # => an ActionMailer::MessageDelivery object
+ # mail.deliver_now # sends the email
+ #
+ # The <tt>ActionMailer::MessageDelivery</tt> class is a wrapper around a <tt>Mail::Message</tt> object. If
+ # you want direct access to the <tt>Mail::Message</tt> object you can call the <tt>message</tt> method on
+ # the <tt>ActionMailer::MessageDelivery</tt> object.
+ #
+ # Notifier.welcome(User.first).message # => a Mail::Message object
+ #
+ # Action Mailer is nicely integrated with Active Job so you can send emails in the background (example: outside
+ # of the request-response cycle, so the user doesn't have to wait on it):
+ #
+ # Notifier.welcome(User.first).deliver_later # enqueue the email sending to Active Job
#
# You never instantiate your mailer class. Rather, you just call the method you defined on the class itself.
#
@@ -169,7 +179,7 @@ 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")
@@ -185,7 +195,7 @@ 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: "")
@@ -197,7 +207,7 @@ 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")
@@ -236,7 +246,7 @@ 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
#
@@ -254,7 +264,7 @@ 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
@@ -262,7 +272,7 @@ 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
@@ -287,7 +297,7 @@ 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
@@ -322,8 +332,8 @@ module ActionMailer
# end
#
# Methods must return a <tt>Mail::Message</tt> object which can be generated by calling the mailer
- # method without the additional <tt>deliver</tt>. The location of the mailer previews
- # directory can be configured using the <tt>preview_path</tt> option which has a default
+ # method without the additional <tt>deliver_now</tt> / <tt>deliver_later</tt>. The location of the
+ # mailer previews directory can be configured using the <tt>preview_path</tt> option which has a default
# of <tt>test/mailers/previews</tt>:
#
# config.action_mailer.preview_path = "#{Rails.root}/lib/mailer_previews"
@@ -394,7 +404,7 @@ module ActionMailer
# implement for a custom delivery agent.
#
# * <tt>perform_deliveries</tt> - Determines whether emails are actually sent from Action Mailer when you
- # call <tt>.deliver</tt> on an mail message or on an Action Mailer method. This is on by default but can
+ # call <tt>.deliver</tt> on an email message or on an Action Mailer method. This is on by default but can
# be turned off to aid in functional testing.
#
# * <tt>deliveries</tt> - Keeps an array of all the emails sent out through the Action Mailer with
@@ -483,7 +493,7 @@ module ActionMailer
# Sets the defaults through app configuration:
#
- # config.action_mailer.default { from: "no-reply@example.org" }
+ # config.action_mailer.default(from: "no-reply@example.org")
#
# Aliased by ::default_options=
def default(value = nil)
@@ -548,8 +558,8 @@ module ActionMailer
end
def method_missing(method_name, *args) # :nodoc:
- if respond_to?(method_name)
- new(method_name, *args).message
+ if action_methods.include?(method_name.to_s)
+ MessageDelivery.new(self, method_name, *args)
else
super
end
@@ -576,8 +586,6 @@ module ActionMailer
}
ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrument("process.action_mailer", payload) do
- lookup_context.skip_default_locale!
-
super
@_message = NullMail.new unless @_mail_was_called
end
@@ -586,6 +594,10 @@ module ActionMailer
class NullMail #:nodoc:
def body; '' end
+ def respond_to?(string, include_all=false)
+ true
+ end
+
def method_missing(*args)
nil
end
@@ -610,6 +622,26 @@ module ActionMailer
# The resulting <tt>Mail::Message</tt> will have the following in its header:
#
# X-Special-Domain-Specific-Header: SecretValue
+ #
+ # Note about replacing already defined headers:
+ #
+ # * +subject+
+ # * +sender+
+ # * +from+
+ # * +to+
+ # * +cc+
+ # * +bcc+
+ # * +reply-to+
+ # * +orig-date+
+ # * +message-id+
+ # * +references+
+ #
+ # Fields can only appear once in email headers while other fields such as
+ # <tt>X-Anything</tt> can appear multiple times.
+ #
+ # If you want to replace any header which already exists, first set it to
+ # +nil+ in order to reset the value otherwise another field will be added
+ # for the same header.
def headers(args = nil)
if args
@_message.headers(args)
@@ -649,14 +681,29 @@ module ActionMailer
# mail.attachments[0] # => Mail::Part (first attachment)
#
def attachments
- @_message.attachments
+ if @_mail_was_called
+ LateAttachmentsProxy.new(@_message.attachments)
+ else
+ @_message.attachments
+ end
+ end
+
+ class LateAttachmentsProxy < SimpleDelegator
+ def inline; _raise_error end
+ def []=(_name, _content); _raise_error end
+
+ private
+ def _raise_error
+ raise RuntimeError, "Can't add attachments after `mail` was called.\n" \
+ "Make sure to use `attachments[]=` before calling `mail`."
+ end
end
# 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.
#
- # Both methods accept a headers hash. This hash allows you to specify the most used headers
- # in an email message, these are:
+ # 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
# ask the Rails I18n class for a translated +:subject+ in the scope of
@@ -745,7 +792,6 @@ module ActionMailer
def mail(headers = {}, &block)
return @_message if @_mail_was_called && headers.blank? && !block
- @_mail_was_called = true
m = @_message
# At the beginning, do not consider class default for content_type
@@ -773,6 +819,8 @@ module ActionMailer
# Render the templates and blocks
responses = collect_responses(headers, &block)
+ @_mail_was_called = true
+
create_parts_from_responses(m, responses)
# Setup content type, reapply charset and handle parts order
@@ -804,7 +852,7 @@ module ActionMailer
when user_content_type.present?
user_content_type
when m.has_attachments?
- if m.attachments.detect { |a| a.inline? }
+ if m.attachments.detect(&:inline?)
["multipart", "related", params]
else
["multipart", "mixed", params]
@@ -859,7 +907,7 @@ module ActionMailer
if templates.empty?
raise ActionView::MissingTemplate.new(paths, name, paths, false, 'mailer')
else
- templates.uniq { |t| t.formats }.each(&block)
+ templates.uniq(&:formats).each(&block)
end
end
@@ -882,6 +930,11 @@ module ActionMailer
container.add_part(part)
end
+ # Emails do not support relative path links.
+ def self.supports_path?
+ false
+ end
+
ActiveSupport.run_load_hooks(:action_mailer, self)
end
end