Question

When I send an email with a attached pdf file the email only shows a file called ‘Noname’. The file itself is the multipart section of the email with the base64 attached pdf. How can I send the PDF so it comes up as an attachment and doesn’t corrupt the email?

Here is my code:

attachments['126539_statistics.pdf'] = File.read("app/assets/pdfs/126539_statistics.pdf")
mail(:to => email, :subject => subject, :body => message,  :content_type => 'application/pdf') 

Answer 1

I had face same problem. I have corrected it by following way

1) As per ActionMailer Guide, You need to make view file into app/views/[action_mailer_model_name]/[method_name]

Here is reference of guide: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionMailer/Base.html

2) Action Mailer is smart enough that it identify content-type automatically while reading file. So there is no need to pass explicitly ‘application/pdf’ in your mail function.

Hope, this information helps to solve your problem