Lazy Mail

lazy_mail is a lazy and quick way to use the function mail and offers configurations to write less code.

Installation

This Gem works only for Rails 3

Add this to your Gemfile and run the bundle command.

gem 'lazy_mail'

Usage

1. Basics

Your mailer before was:

class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  default :from => 'test@test.com'

  def confirmation(user)
    @user = user
    mail(:to => user.email, :subject => 'confirm')
  end
end

With lazy_mail you just write less code. lazy_mail set user as an instance variable @user by default.

class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  def confirmation(user)
    lazy_mail user
  end
end

And you email view doesn’t change:

Hello <%= @user.username %>

You can still use the options of mail:

lazy_mail user, { :to => 'another@test.com', :subject => 'my subject' }

You can pass many arguments as you like:

def confirmation(user, post, author)
  lazy_mail user, post, author
end

and just use in your mail view @user, @post, @autor.

2. Configurations

Mailer Views

The views are now located in a different folder: app/views/notifications/mailer_name/current_locale/ For example your locale is english the path will be:

views/notifications/user_mailer/en/confirmation.text.erb

You can set the path you want in your initializer with:

LazyMail.mailer_templates_path = 'notification'

If you set it to nil it will take the default rails path

Option :to

The mail option :to is set by default, but you have to configure it in your initializer:

Lazy.user_model = User

Just put the name of the model you want to use.

By default it will call the method email, if you have another name change it in your initializer.

LazyMail.email_field = :email

I18n subject

The subject is a scope: [:mailer, :mailer_name, :action_name], you can change it:

LazyMail.i18n_scope = [:mailer, :class_name, :action_name]
=> 'mailer.user_mailer.confirmation.subject'

If you prefer to use the rails default just set it to nil

Option :from

Set the option :from in the initializer

LazyMail.default_no_reply = 'no-reply@test.com'

Development

For the development phase, you can set an option :to by default to overwrite user.email

LazyMail.development_mail = 'my_mail@test.com'

If you use Git:

LazyMail.development_mail = :git

lazy_mail will take your git git config user.email

You can find the initializer file here