Rails - Sep 2005 - ActionMailer grief

I have an ActionMailer written by another programmer that I''m trying
to finish off. It receives an email and is supposed to reply with
results of processing the incoming message.

Incoming email processing works. Automatically sending a reply after
processing that incoming email is another story. The documentation
assumes you are using your ActionMailer from a controller and advises
use of the class method deliver() to manually send an existing TMail
instance. That doesn''t work from within the context of a ActionMailer
receive() method.

Looking at the source code, I see that deliver() is added to the
metaclass of ActionMailer::Base so my first attempt was to call se.f

(breakpoint right before the attempt to deliver)

irb (#<CoaMailer:0x3eeaf18>):009:0> self.kind_of? ActionMailer::Base
=> true
irb(#<CoaMailer:0x3eeaf18>):010:0> self.respond_to? :deliver =>
false
irb(#<CoaMailer:0x3eeaf18>):014:0> self.respond_to? :deliver! =>
true

Okay, so I just have to invoke deliver! Nope. ArgumentError wrong
number (1 for 0)

CoaMailer.deliver(reply) fails too. I can get the behavior I want on
the server by calling send("perform_delivery_sendmail", reply), but
that fails the test suite on my windows box. (Grr)

I''m about to rewrite so that CoaMailer has a reply public method and
rhtml template. Hopefully that will let me call create_reply,
deliver_reply inside my receive method (but I''m worried it
won''t).

Obie,

Would it be possible to see the mailer code in question? Feel free to  
email me off-list and I can help you troubleshoot this.

- Jamis

On Sep 28, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Obie Fernandez wrote:
> I have an ActionMailer written by another programmer that I''m
trying
> to finish off. It receives an email and is supposed to reply with
> results of processing the incoming message.
>
> Incoming email processing works. Automatically sending a reply after
> processing that incoming email is another story. The documentation
> assumes you are using your ActionMailer from a controller and advises
> use of the class method deliver() to manually send an existing TMail
> instance. That doesn''t work from within the context of a
ActionMailer
> receive() method.
>
> Looking at the source code, I see that deliver() is added to the
> metaclass of ActionMailer::Base so my first attempt was to call se.f
>
> (breakpoint right before the attempt to deliver)
>
> irb (#<CoaMailer:0x3eeaf18>):009:0> self.kind_of?  
> ActionMailer::Base => true
> irb(#<CoaMailer:0x3eeaf18>):010:0> self.respond_to? :deliver =>
false
> irb(#<CoaMailer:0x3eeaf18>):014:0> self.respond_to? :deliver!
=> true
>
> Okay, so I just have to invoke deliver! Nope. ArgumentError wrong
> number (1 for 0)
>
> CoaMailer.deliver(reply) fails too. I can get the behavior I want on
> the server by calling send("perform_delivery_sendmail", reply),
but
> that fails the test suite on my windows box. (Grr)
>
> I''m about to rewrite so that CoaMailer has a reply public method
and
> rhtml template. Hopefully that will let me call create_reply,
> deliver_reply inside my receive method (but I''m worried it
won''t).
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