ActionMailer Layout on HTML version not Plain Text

[Raymond O'Connor]

I'm sending plain text and html emails by having multiple files for each
email I send. For example, for my registration email I have a
registration.text.plain.erb file and a registration.text.html.erb file.
I want to use a layout for the html version of my emails. In my mailer
I put:

class AccountsMailer < ActionMailer::Base
layout 'email'
...
end

Unfortunately rails seems to look for views/layouts/email.html.erb and
uses that layout for both my HTML and plain text emails. When I name
the file email.text.html.erb rails complains:

Missing layout layouts/email.erb ...

How do I set up action mailer so that it uses a layout only for the html
version of emails?

Thanks
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[Raymond O'Connor]

Is there really no way to do this? This pretty much makes actionmailer
layouts useless if you are sending html emails with plain text
alternatives.

[Iain Adams]

Did you ever find an answer to this? I have the exact same problem.

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html

claims you can use different content types (plain/html) but it doesn't
work for me

On Mar 10, 11:25 am, Raymond O'Connor <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-

[Danimal]

Hi!

I just posted the exact same issue here before I saw this thread. It
doesn't work for me on Rails 2.2.2.

I was really excited to see layouts in ActionMailer, but this is
frustrating. *sigh*

-Danimal

(I'm poking around in the ActionMailer code to see if there is
anything I can find)

[Danimal]

BTW, looks like this has been a known bug for a little while:
https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/1799-actionmailer-doesnt-set-template_format-when-rendering-layouts

(since January at least).

*sigh*

Hopefully someone will fix it. If I knew the internals of Rails
better, I'd give it a go myself.

-Danimal

[Danimal]

Woo hoo! Fix discovered!

http://blog.kreeti.com/rails/multipart-emails-with-mailer-templates

Whew! I wasted 4 hours last night trying to monkeypatch ActionMailer
but I was futzing around in the wrong places.

I added Surendra's suggestion as a monkeypatch and it works great!

Ok, on to other stuff...

-Danimal

On Mar 25, 11:02 pm, Danimal <fightonfightw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW, looks like this has been a known bug for a little while:https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/1799-actionmail...