Rails - Aug 2005 - ActiveView Helpers in ActionMailers?

Hi

Is it somehow possible to enabled the ActionView helpers in my  
ActionMailer classes? "url_for" seems not to be available in the  
template (my application crashes because the method does not exist).

Using "helper ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper" in my ActionMailer  
class does not help either.

Regards

Manuel Holtgrewe

On Aug 9, 2005, at 2:51 PM, Manuel Holtgrewe wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is it somehow possible to enabled the ActionView helpers in my  
> ActionMailer classes? "url_for" seems not to be available in the
> template (my application crashes because the method does not exist).
>
> Using "helper ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper" in my ActionMailer
> class does not help either.
Currently, url_for is not accessible in mailer classes. The reason is  
that url_for requires some infrastructure that is not available in  
mailer classes. Until someone submits a patch that changes that, the  
only way to take advantage of url_for in mailer classes is to do  
something like:

   # in the controller
   url = url_for(...)
   SomeMailer.deliver_some_mail(url)

And then use the passed value to help render the mail.

- Jamis