Question

I have a link that, when clicked, should deliver an email by using an action defined in a controller. I am not setting the path correctly however:

= link_to "Email", quote_deliver_customer_mailer_path

quotes_controller

def deliver_customer_mailer(quote)
  @quote = quote
  CustomerMailer.estimate(@quote).deliver
end

routes.rb

resources :quotes do
  get :deliver_customer_mailer
end

I get the following error message No route matches {:action=>"deliver_customer_mailer", :controller=>"quotes"}. A) What would be the right way to create that link. B) Is there a better way I should be building this? Thanks.

Update

Ah, I needed to pass a value into the path… quote_deliver_customer_mailer_path(quote)

Answer 1

You must create a method in controller then set route to it and from controller send an email. You can’t do it from view.