Rails - May 2009 - Attaching files to emails using ActionMailer

Hey Guys,

I wish to generate a PDF on the fly to attach to an email.  I am using
action mailer and I want to tell the action mailer to attach a PDF
from a URL not a file.  All of the examples I have seen attach the
file to the email like so...

      attachment :content_type => "image/jpeg",
        :body => File.read("an-image.jpg")

Is there anyway I can make it so that "an-image.jpg" is called from a
url on the localhost so something like "localhost/invoice.pdf".  This
will fit in to my rails app as it generates a PDF using prawn and
prawnto from that url.

Thanks for any help

didn''t try this myself, but use open-uri?

      attachment :content_type => "image/jpeg",
        :body => open("http://site.com/an-image.jpg").read

On May 20, 8:47 pm, Stewart
<stewart.mathe...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I wish to generate a PDF on the fly to attach to an email.  I am using
> action mailer and I want to tell the action mailer to attach a PDF
> from a URL not a file.  All of the examples I have seen attach the
> file to the email like so...
>
>       attachment :content_type => "image/jpeg",
>         :body => File.read("an-image.jpg")
>
> Is there anyway I can make it so that "an-image.jpg" is called
from a
> url on the localhost so something like "localhost/invoice.pdf".
 This
> will fit in to my rails app as it generates a PDF using prawn and
> prawnto from that url.
>
> Thanks for any help