# Difficulty with body in ActionMailer **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 10, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/difficulty-with-body-in-actionmailer/91529 "2007-04-10T03:34:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/difficulty-with-body-in-actionmailer/91529/1 "2007-04-10T03:34:19Z")
AWRDwRv2 is pretty vague on the @body part of setting up a mailer. Here is my problem: > > p = Person.find(1) > > =\> #Person:0x45c944c > > SiteMailer.request\_admin\_approval§ > > NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! > > You might have expected an instance of Array. > > The error occurred while evaluating nil.[]= > > from site\_mailer.rb:10:in `request\_admin\_approval’ > > from (irb):2 ln def self.request\_admin\_approval(person) @subject = ‘New User Notification’ 10 @body[“person”] = person @recipients = person.email @from = ‘removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid’ @sent\_on = Time.now @headers = {} 15 end ---
**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/difficulty-with-body-in-actionmailer/91529/2 "2007-04-10T15:50:13Z")
Taylor S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) said: > The error occurred while evaluating nil.[]= > from site\_mailer.rb:10:in `request\_admin\_approval’ > from (irb):2 > > ln def self.request\_admin\_approval(person) > @subject = ‘New User Notification’ > 10 @body[“person”] = person body = :person =\> person That should do what you are looking for. – Mark Loeser email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - [http://www.halcy0n.com](http://www.halcy0n.com) ---
**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/difficulty-with-body-in-actionmailer/91529/3 "2007-04-10T16:28:50Z")
> body = :person =\> person > > That should do what you are looking for. Thanks, Mark. Where did that come from? There isn’t anything like it in AWDwRv2. ---
**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/difficulty-with-body-in-actionmailer/91529/4 "2007-04-10T16:32:19Z")
Taylor S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) said: > > body = :person =\> person > > > > That should do what you are looking for. > > Thanks, Mark. Where did that come from? There isn’t anything like it > in AWDwRv2. [http://api.rubyonrails.org](http://api.rubyonrails.org) has some nice examples on it. It currently seems to be down though. – Mark Loeser email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - [http://www.halcy0n.com](http://www.halcy0n.com) ---
**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/difficulty-with-body-in-actionmailer/91529/5 "2007-04-10T17:12:33Z")
This syntax doesn’t work for me: > body = :person =\> person But this does: body :person =\> person The API docs conflict with AWDwRv2 and the mailer generator in the format. The API doesn’t use ‘=’ but the generator and AWD do. I assume the API docs are out of date, but then @body = does NOT work. Bummer. ---
**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/difficulty-with-body-in-actionmailer/91529/6 "2007-04-10T18:16:36Z")
Taylor S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) said: > This syntax doesn’t work for me: > > > body = :person =\> person > > But this does: > > body :person =\> person Yup, oops. I meant to remove that =. I always go by whatever is on [api.rubyonrails.org](http://api.rubyonrails.org). – Mark Loeser email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - [http://www.halcy0n.com](http://www.halcy0n.com)