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improve mailer generator and add tests

#20

This is what mailer generator used to generate:

class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base
  def reset_password()
    @subject = "..."
    @from    = "..."
    # ...
  end
end

You see that it used instance variables, while the documentation clearly advocates usage of methods. This patch changes output to:

  def reset_password()
    subject "..."
    from    "..."
    # ...
  end

It also cleans up the generator test suite, removing quite a lot duplication, and adds mailer test for the first time.

Reported by Mislav · April 18th, 2008 @ 10:55 PM

State: resolved
Milestone: none
Assigned to: josh josh
Importance: none

Activity

  1. Mislav
  2. Mislav
    Mislav

    Added third commit. This is how the generated mailer now looks like:

    script/generate mailer notifier reset_password
    

    In @app/models/notifier.rb@:

    class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base
      
      # change to your domain name
      default_url_options[:host] = 'example.com'
    
      def reset_password(sent_at = Time.now)
        subject    'Notifier#reset_password'
        recipients ''
        from       ''
        sent_on    sent_at
        
        body       :greeting => 'Hi,'
      end
    
    end
    

    April 18th, 2008 @ 11:11 PM

  3. josh
  4. josh
  5. josh
    josh

    Question, how did you diff those patches? It included your name and email at the top which is really nice.

    Can you doc the process under Ticket Guidelines Authorship.

    April 18th, 2008 @ 11:22 PM

  6. Mislav
    Mislav
    git format-patch HEAD~3
    

    I can't edit Ticket Guidelines, only core team can.

    April 18th, 2008 @ 11:53 PM

  7. Cody Fauser
    Cody Fauser

    Great changes overall. However, I did notice one small potential issue. I don't think the default_url_options[:host] call should be placed in the mailer. This seems to promote setting the host in each mailer, but the host is likely to be the same in most cases. Also, default_url_options is a mattr_accessor so the settings in each mailer will overwrite each other, which is likely to be confusing for the developer.

    It seems more useful to use something like the following in the application's configuration:

    config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => 'myhost.com' }
    

    April 21st, 2008 @ 01:09 PM

  8. Mislav
    Mislav

    Well, I generally agree. We only have to update docs for ActionMailer and we can remove `default_url_options` from generator.

    April 21st, 2008 @ 01:15 PM

  9. Cody Fauser
    Cody Fauser

    Please take a look at #32. I created a patch which updates the documentation and removes the default_url_options call from the generator.

    April 21st, 2008 @ 03:16 PM