Question

I’m having some difficulties converting this old mailer api to rails 3:

content_type “multipart/mixed”

part :content_type => "multipart/alternative" do |alt|

  alt.part "text/plain" do |p|
     p.body = render_message("summary_report.text.plain.erb",

:message =>
message.gsub(/<.br.>/,”\n”),
:campaign=>campaign,
:aggregate=>aggregate,
:promo_messages=>campaign.participating_promo_msgs)
end

   alt.part "text/html" do |p|
      p.body = render_message("summary_report.text.html.erb",

:message => message,
:campaign=>campaign,
:aggregate=>aggregate,:promo_messages=>campaign.participating_promo_msgs)
end

end
if bounce_path
  attachment :content_type => "text/csv",
  :body=> File.read(bounce_path),
  :filename => "rmo_bounced_emails.csv"
end
attachment :content_type => "application/pdf",
      :body => File.read(report_path),
      :filename=>"rmo_report.pdf"

In particular I don’t understand how to differentiate the different multipart options. Any idea?

Answer 1

“Action Mailer will automatically send multipart emails if you have different templates for the same action.”
For example having these files would give you text and html versions:

summary_report.text.erb
summary_report.html.erb

Check the Rails Guides for details:

• http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#sending-multipart-emails
• http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#sending-emails-with-attachments