Rails - Oct 2005 - url_for nopt available in Mailer Views

Hi,

I''m trying to use url_for in a View that renders an email.
The method is not a available in that View, probably because it''s not 
tied to a controller (??)

Does anybody know a good way of making these url methods available in 
the View, or perhaps anybody knows of good reasons why they shouldn''t
be
available.

TIA,

Jeroen

On 19.10.2005, at 11.05, Jeroen Houben wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I''m trying to use url_for in a View that renders an email.
> The method is not a available in that View, probably because it''s
> not tied to a controller (??)
>
> Does anybody know a good way of making these url methods available  
> in the View, or perhaps anybody knows of good reasons why they  
> shouldn''t be available.
This is Jamis Buck''s response to this question in August (http:// 
thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails/17849):

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


//jarkko


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> TIA,
>
> Jeroen
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Yes, but... (I had this issue some time ago)

What if I am using an ActiveRecord callbacks to generate my emails? I 
ended-up refactoring and creating the email from the controller, passing 
the url as a parameter as you mentionned. Too bad since callbacks felt 
nice for this kind of thing.

Was there any other option?

Jarkko Laine wrote:
> On 19.10.2005, at 11.05, Jeroen Houben wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I''m trying to use url_for in a View that renders an email.
>> The method is not a available in that View, probably because
it''s
>> not tied to a controller (??)
>>
>> Does anybody know a good way of making these url methods available  
>> in the View, or perhaps anybody knows of good reasons why they  
>> shouldn''t be available.
>
>
> This is Jamis Buck''s response to this question in August (http:// 
> thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails/17849):
>
> 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
>
>
> //jarkko
>
>
>
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Jeroen
>> _______________________________________________
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>>
>
> -- 
> Jarkko Laine
> http://jlaine.net
> http://odesign.fi
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