# GetText doesn't work in ActionMailer **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails I18n\ **Created:** [August 14, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-doesnt-work-in-actionmailer/102253 "2006-08-14T04:21:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stephane\_JAIS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Stephane\_JAIS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Stephane_JAIS)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-doesnt-work-in-actionmailer/102253/21 "2007-03-30T17:54:55Z")
Myk OLeary wrote: > Making a mailer in your root application solves that issue as well. The > .rhtml I’m using is full of \_() that work fine. Well I alread have a mailer model: app/models/signup\_mailer.rb and it does not work. Do you have template files per language? e.g. template\_en.rhtml, template\_xy.rhtml? ---
**Author:** ![Stephane\_JAIS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Stephane\_JAIS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Stephane_JAIS)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-doesnt-work-in-actionmailer/102253/22 "2007-03-30T17:30:52Z")
Making a mailer in your root application solves that issue as well. The .rhtml I’m using is full of \_() that work fine. -Myk On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 6:58 am, Roland wrote: > Myk O’Leary wrote: > > > This will create a file RAILS\_ROOT/app/model/mailer.rb > > > > Use the \_() in this new model after setting your locale, just as in a > > controller. > > Looks like a misunderstanding: The problem is that the \_() does not > work > in rhtml templates used by ActionMailer. –From the road on my Sidekick ---
**Author:** ![Stephane\_JAIS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Stephane\_JAIS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Stephane_JAIS)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-doesnt-work-in-actionmailer/102253/23 "2007-03-30T18:50:22Z")
I do not. I’ll enclose snippets from my setup with what may help you out with getting it to work. There are snippets not included for the actual setting of the locale which I’ll assume you have since you have this working elsewhere. One note is that I have my controller, model and view one directory level deeper than you likely do. This won’t affect success, but does affect the directory paths, etc that you see below. RAILS\_ROOT/app/controllers/application.rb: … require ‘gettext/rails’ … RAILS\_ROOT/app/controllers/netreport/report\_controller.rb: … def emailreport ``` ... Netreport::Reporter.deliver_emailreport(@user, @locale) ... ``` end … RAILS\_ROOT/app/models/netreport/reporter.rb: class Netreport::Reporter \< ActionMailer::Base … def emailreport(user, locale) ``` require 'iconv' ``` ActionMailer::Base.default\_charset = “iso-8859-1” ``` C = Iconv.new('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8') ... NR_setlocale(locale) @subject = C.iconv(_("My subject")) hash_body = {"user" => user, "locale" => locale} @body = C.iconv(render_message("emailreport", hash_body)) ... ``` end … RAILS\_ROOT/app/views/netreport/reporter/emailreport.rhtml: … ``` NR_setlocale(@locale) _("Report for ") ``` … Non gettext related notes are that we use iconv for translated emails at present because several web mail providers are very inconsistent with presentation of UTF8 character encoded emails. This did and will work w/o needing to use iconv, but I don’t have the time today to revert back to our previous code to make sure the snippets I post are working. I know the above are, as they are in production right now. Make sure you set the locale in the view, or you could very well not get the proper translations. * * * Myk OLeary - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Web Services Developer Pure Networks - [http://www.purenetworks.com](http://www.purenetworks.com) ---
**Author:** ![Stephane\_JAIS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Stephane\_JAIS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Stephane_JAIS)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-doesnt-work-in-actionmailer/102253/24 "2007-03-30T20:09:07Z")
Myk O’Leary wrote: > I’ll enclose snippets from my setup with what may help you out with > getting it to work. There are snippets not included for the actual > setting of the locale which I’ll assume you have since you have this > working elsewhere. Thank you very much 🙂 two questions: - This means to get gettext working with ActionMailer you have to pass the current locale from the controller over to the Mailer-model and even down to the view? right? This doesn’t look like DRY ☹ - NR\_setlocale() is that your custom method setting GetText.locale? best regards, Roland ---
**Author:** ![Stephane\_JAIS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Stephane\_JAIS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Stephane_JAIS)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-doesnt-work-in-actionmailer/102253/25 "2007-03-30T20:21:36Z")
Yes and yes. * * * Myk OLeary - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Web Services Developer Pure Networks - [http://www.purenetworks.com](http://www.purenetworks.com) [Previous page](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-doesnt-work-in-actionmailer/102253.md?page=1)