# Mailer question -- Order Confirmation **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 5, 2007, 6:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailer-question-order-confirmation/122173 "2007-12-05T06:27:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elle)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 6:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailer-question-order-confirmation/122173/1 "2007-12-05T06:27:12Z")
Hi, I have a method “process” to process an order. It works good. I then added an actionmailer to send an email confirmation when the order is processed. I believed I followed the example from AWDWR 2nd ed. Anyhow, I how get an error in regards to this addition: NameError (undefined local variable or method `order' for #): /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/ active_record/base.rb:1860:in`method\_missing’ .//app/models/order.rb:38:in `process' .//app/controllers/cart_controller.rb:103:in`place\_order’ My order.rb model line 38 says: OrderMailer.confirm(order) My order)mailer.rb has: def confirm(order) @subject = ‘Company Order Confirmation’ @body[“order”] = order @recipients = order.email @bcc = ‘orders@…’ @from = ‘orders@…’ @sent\_on = Time.now @headers[“Organization”] = “Company” end Would anyone know what the problem is? TIA, Elle ---
**Author:** ![elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elle)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 8:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailer-question-order-confirmation/122173/2 "2007-12-05T08:41:41Z")
On 5 Dec 2007, at 05:26, elle wrote: > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/ > active\_record/base.rb:1860:in `method_missing' .//app/models/order.rb:38:in`process’ > .//app/controllers/cart\_controller.rb:103:in `place\_order’ > > My order.rb model line 38 says: > OrderMailer.confirm(order) The error message suggests that you are calling OrderMailer.confirm(order) from an instance of order. Assuming that it is trying to send the confirmation email for itself, that should probably be OrderMailer.confirm(self) Fred ---
**Author:** ![elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elle)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 10:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailer-question-order-confirmation/122173/3 "2007-12-05T10:20:04Z")
What you say sounds very logical but I still get an error. My process method in the order.rb model says: 35 def process 36 result = true 37 … 38 OrderMailer.confirm(self) 39 self.status = ‘processed’ 40 save! 41 result 42 end The place\_order method in the cart\_controller.rb: 94 def place\_order 95 @page\_title = “Checkout” 96 @order = Order.new(params[:order]) 97 @order.customer\_ip = request.remote\_ip 98 @order.customer\_id = @customer.id 99 @order.discount = @customer.discount 100 populate\_order 101 102 if @order.save 103 if @order.process 104 flash[:notice] = ‘Your order has been submitted, and will be processed immediately.’ 105 session[:order\_id] = @order.id 106 # Empty the cart 107 @cart.cart\_items.destroy\_all 108 redirect\_to :action =\> ‘thank\_you’ 109 else 110 flash[:notice] = “Error while placing order. ‘#{@order.error\_message}’” 111 render :action =\> ‘view\_cart’ 112 end 113 else 114 render :action =\> ‘checkout’ 115 end 116 end And the error message is: NoMethodError in CartController#place\_order undefined method `confirm' for OrderMailer:Class /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.3.3/lib/action_mailer/ base.rb:335:in `method\_missing’ app/models/order.rb:38:in `process' app/controllers/cart_controller.rb:103:in `place\_order’ Any ideas?? Thanks Elle On Dec 5, 6:40 pm, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elle)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailer-question-order-confirmation/122173/4 "2007-12-07T08:01:57Z")
Thanks Fred. I originally had it as: OrderMailer.create\_confirm(order) and it gave me an error of undefined method. Once I changed it to self, no more problems. Cheers, Elle On Dec 5, 8:43 pm, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elle)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 10:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailer-question-order-confirmation/122173/5 "2007-12-05T10:44:05Z")
On 5 Dec 2007, at 09:19, elle wrote: > app/controllers/cart\_controller.rb:103:in `place\_order’ > > Any ideas?? That was me being half awake. If you checkAWDR, you’ll see that you either need to do OrderMailer.create\_confirm(self) to create an email (but not send it) or OrderMailer.deliver\_confirm(self) to create and send an email Fred ---
**Author:** ![elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elle)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 10:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailer-question-order-confirmation/122173/6 "2007-12-07T10:17:46Z")
I still have another question. So, now I don’t get an error but I also don’t get an email for order confirmation. …but… I do get an email when a user fills out a contact form. Any ideas why the email is not getting sent? I’m not even sure what code to send to check where the problem is. Elle ---
**Author:** ![elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elle)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailer-question-order-confirmation/122173/7 "2007-12-12T05:28:44Z")
Thank you Fred. Works like a charm. Elle On Dec 7, 8:35 pm, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@elle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elle)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 10:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailer-question-order-confirmation/122173/8 "2007-12-07T10:35:58Z")
On 7 Dec 2007, at 09:17, elle wrote: > I still have another question. So, now I don’t get an error but I also > don’t get an email for order confirmation. > …but… I do get an email when a user fills out a contact form. Any > ideas why the email is not getting sent? > > I’m not even sure what code to send to check where the problem is. create\_confirm doesn’t send email: it creates a TMail::Mail object which you can then send. If you just want to send the email you should use deliver\_confirm instead of create\_confirm Fred