How can I send mail with rails without a template?

Question

In my Rails 3 project, I want to send some simple notification emails. I don\'t need to make a template for them or do any logic. I just want to fire them off from various place

Answer 1

Here is little example from Rails Guides which uses render method. I didn't try it, but if it works as render in cotrollers, then you can just use:

render :text => "Your message"

or

render :text => my_message

Where my_message is a parameter.

You can just wrap it in a method which you can call from every place you want.

Updated Rails 3.2.8

In this version of Rails I had to do it like this:

def raw_email( email, subject, body )
  mail(
    :to => email,
    :subject => subject
  ) do |format|
    format.text { render :text => body }
  end
end