How can I send emails in Rails 3 using the recipient's locale?

Question

How can I send mails in a mailer using the recipient\'s locale. I have the preferred locale for each user in the database. Notice this is different from the current locale (I18n

Answer 1

in the most resent version of rails at this time it's sufficient to use "I18n.locale = account.locale" in the controller and make multiple views with the following naming strategy welcome.html.erb, welcome.it.html.erb and e.g. welcome.fr.html.erb