Action Mailer MailHelper
Provides helper methods for ActionMailer::Base
that can be used for easily formatting messages, accessing mailer or message instances, and the attachments list.
Methods
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- B
- F
- M
Instance Public methods
attachments() Link
Access the message attachments list.
block_format(text) Link
Take the text and format it, indented two spaces for each line, and wrapped at 72 columns:
text = <<-TEXT
This is
the paragraph.
* item1 * item2
TEXT
block_format text
# => " This is the paragraph.\n\n * item1\n * item2\n"
# File actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/mail_helper.rb, line 22 def block_format(text) formatted = text.split(/\n\r?\n/).collect { |paragraph| format_paragraph(paragraph) }.join("\n\n") # Make list points stand on their own line output = +"" splits = formatted.split(/(\*+|\#+)/) while line = splits.shift if line.start_with?("*", "#") && splits.first&.start_with?(" ") output.chomp!(" ") while output.end_with?(" ") output << " #{line} #{splits.shift.strip}\n" else output << line end end output end
format_paragraph(text, len = 72, indent = 2) Link
Returns text
wrapped at len
columns and indented indent
spaces. By default column length len
equals 72 characters and indent indent
equal two spaces.
my_text = 'Here is a sample text with more than 40 characters'
format_paragraph(my_text, 25, 4)
# => " Here is a sample text with\n more than 40 characters"
# File actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/mail_helper.rb, line 65 def format_paragraph(text, len = 72, indent = 2) sentences = [[]] text.split.each do |word| if sentences.first.present? && (sentences.last + [word]).join(" ").length > len sentences << [word] else sentences.last << word end end indentation = " " * indent sentences.map! { |sentence| "#{indentation}#{sentence.join(' ')}" }.join "\n" end
mailer() Link
Access the mailer instance.