Action::Base.template_root = “some path”

and it does not work! It is complaining that it can not find the template file and I can not set it.

Appreciate any help here?

GregD

ActionMailer::Base.template_root =

I’m getting the following error:

activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:105:in `rescue in const_missing’: uninitialized constant ActionView::Base::ActionController (NameError)

Any ideas?

Do I have to set the template_root? Googling I found that I have to but you are not. Where does it find the templates if you are not setting it?

I’m trying to use sendmail instead of smtp.

Can anybody tell me what is the problem with that?

Check out http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionMailer/Base.html for more info.

I’m looking to do something like link

I can get http://linkSomewhere in the e-mail but when I add any tags it just becomes regular text.

Thanks for any help

Ray

The other ways to get rubygems working, is to start ruby with the -rubygems argument, or to export RUBYOPT=rubygems as an environment variable.

I had to do a require ‘rubygems’ as well.

I now have a working send .jpg script! I also have mail notification via SMS, when the e-mail arrives…

Remaining:
crontab job that scans for new .jpg, and send the mail. Or, scan for .jpg, send e-mail, move .jpg to archive.

This is great!

Basically, in the smtp_settings call in the original example, you’d want to pass in values for :domain, :user_name, :password, and possibly :authentication

This example just does the mailing part. It’s not too hard to call it from other code that does the work assembling the file list.

In the case where I’m using this, the code to manipulate the files would look something like

#start here
files_to_email = Dir['/home/juliand/to_email/*.jpg']
to = ’some.address@example.com’
from = ‘julian@example.com’
mime_type = ‘image/jpeg’
files_to_email.each do |f|
FileMailer.deliver_file(to, from, f, mime_type)
end
#end here

(I think the format will get messed up by the comments system, but you get the idea)

To get it to pick up all files in a directory whenever they arrive, you’d probably want to set up a cron job, or start a permanent ruby process running in the background. You’d need to write some extra code to periodically check for any files, email then, then move them to an archive directory (so they aren’t picked up the next time).

Hope this helps.

I am trying to use your example as a standalone tool to send all .jpg files from a directory. I have not succeeded yet, still installing some gems.

Any more ideas how to make this automatic, when a new.jpg file shows up in a directory, sent it via e-mail directly.

Need to get the “smtp relay” with auth to work as well via my ISPs servers.

This will be used for my the surveillance cameras in my summer house…

Regards
Gunnar
Stockholm