# Radiant Mailer Behavior **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [June 27, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264 "2006-06-27T20:00:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hrrzone)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264/1 "2006-06-27T20:00:51Z")
Hi, i am pretty much excited by using Radiant. I am a bit confused by the Mailer behavior. I am trying to implement it but it gives me errors. Can someone talk about this from his experience? Also config part needs to be defined the same way as a page part, right? Is there a need of defining smtp? Thanks in advance. Regards, Rizwan R. ---
**Author:** ![hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hrrzone)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264/2 "2006-06-27T20:07:02Z")
Hello. On 6/27/06, Rizwan R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > i am pretty much excited by using Radiant. I am a bit confused by the Mailer > behavior. I am trying to implement it but it gives me errors. Can someone > talk about this from his experience? [http://lists.radiantcms.org/pipermail/radiant/2006-June/000643.html](http://lists.radiantcms.org/pipermail/radiant/2006-June/000643.html) > Also config part needs to be defined the same way as a page part, right? Is Yes. > there a need of defining smtp? No. –M ---
**Author:** ![hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hrrzone)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264/3 "2006-06-27T20:33:05Z")
Thanks for the reply. I also had revision 56 of radiant so I am using the behavior with that for the time being. Now I am getting the following error. Is there anything in particular I can do to make it work. You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occured while evaluating nil.[] Rizwan ---
**Author:** ![hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hrrzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264/4 "2006-06-29T15:40:45Z")
Has it been addressed in the 0.5 grindstone release? RIzwan ---
**Author:** ![hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hrrzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264/5 "2006-06-29T15:46:46Z")
Rizwan R. wrote: > Has it been addressed in the 0.5 grindstone release? Probably not. I’d suggest you e-mail Matt McCray directly with questions about the mailer behavior ([http://mattmccray.com/](http://mattmccray.com/)). Or even better, find the problem and submit a patch to him. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hrrzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264/6 "2006-06-29T17:21:18Z")
I can’t get accented characters like umlauts to work properly with Radiant. HTML entities work, but that’s a little bit too complicated for most users… Idealy people should be able to cut and paste text from word into a Radiant form and the accents would just keep working… Anyone? – Jeroen J. Laika online entertainment * * * ---
**Author:** ![hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hrrzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264/7 "2006-06-29T18:36:42Z")
Rizwan R. wrote: > Now I am getting the following error. Is there anything in particular > I can do to make it work. > > You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! > > You might have expected an instance of Array. > The error occured while evaluating nil.[] > When are you getting this error, exactly? When it tries to show the > page, or when you submit it? Also, do you have any other plugins installed? I did notice that the example config part is malformed in the README… It should look like this: mailers: contact: subject: From the website of Whatever from: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid redirect\_to: /contact/thank-you recipients: - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Also, you’ll need to add an ‘email’ (or ‘email\_html’) part as well. It’s the template that’s used for the email itself. Thanks, M@ ---
**Author:** ![hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hrrzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264/8 "2006-06-29T18:55:25Z")
Rizwan R. wrote: > Now I am getting the following error. Is there anything in particular > I can do to make it work. > > You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! > > You might have expected an instance of Array. > The error occured while evaluating nil.[] I just thought of something that might cause this – Let’s say the following is my emailer form: \ _Name:_ \ _City:_ \ _Email:_ \ \ \ And here’s my ‘config’ part: mailers: contact: subject: From the website of Whatever from: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid redirect\_to: /contact/thank-you recipients: - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid I would also have an ‘email’ part: \ submitted the following: City = \ Email = \ Now, I’d need to make sure the _name_ of the mailer:form exists in the _mailers:_ config section. In the example above, they are both named ‘contact’. So if you use something different, be sure they match up. Why did I make it where you have to name the mailer form configuration? Simple. Because this will allow for multiple mailers on the same page. I think I need to work on documentation for the mailer… 🙂 Cheers, M@ ---
**Author:** ![hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hrrzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264/9 "2006-06-29T17:49:57Z")
Rizwan R. wrote: > Has it been addressed in the 0.5 grindstone release? Not yet, I will have a look at it – probably this evening. Hopefully, I’ll have an updated version out there tonight. ~M@ ---
**Author:** ![hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hrrzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264/10 "2006-06-29T19:04:43Z")
On Jun 29, 2006, at 11:55 AM, M@ McCray wrote: > I think I need to work on documentation for the mailer… 🙂 Please codify the assumption you tracked down by raising a specific exception instead of letting Ruby barf. That gives you an opportunity to convey exactly what the problem is, where, and why, and gives the rest of us something to feed to/retrieve from Google. – Ryan P. Senior Developer, SubscriberMail, LLC 3333 Warrenville Rd. Suite 530 Lisle, IL 60532 (630) 303-5072 Not Just Email…SubscriberMail > **[subscribermail.com domain name is for sale. Inquire now.](https://www.subscribermail.com/)** > > subscribermail.com is available for purchase. Get in touch to discuss the possibilities! This message (including attachments) contains proprietary information which may not be disclosed or used beyond the purposes of this message without the written consent of SubscriberMail, LLC. If you receive this message in error, notify the sender and destroy this message and all attachments immediately. Thank you. SubscriberMail is covered under US PATENT 6,769,002 ---
**Author:** ![hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hrrzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264/11 "2006-06-29T21:05:35Z")
I think the problem I am having on the localhost is connection error. But on the hosted servers where the live radiant copy is working, it shows: protected method `get\_class\_name’ called for #\ Any hopes? Thanks for the behavior, btw! Rizwan ---
**Author:** ![hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hrrzone)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 10:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264/12 "2006-07-04T10:48:56Z")
On 6/29/06, Jeroen J. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I can’t get accented characters like umlauts to work properly with Radiant. > HTML entities work, but that’s a little bit too complicated for most > users… Idealy people should be able to cut and paste text from word into a > Radiant form and the accents would just keep working… Have you tried to set the content-type of your main layout as “text/html; charset=utf-8”? ---
**Author:** ![hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hrrzone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hrrzone)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-mailer-behavior/96264/13 "2006-07-04T11:01:27Z")
On Jul 4, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Ollivier R. wrote: > > I can’t get accented characters like umlauts to work properly with > > Radiant. > > HTML entities work, but that’s a little bit too complicated for most > > users… Idealy people should be able to cut and paste text from > > word into a > > Radiant form and the accents would just keep working… > > Have you tried to set the content-type of your main layout as > “text/html; charset=utf-8”? Well, I’ll be damned… I thought I did, but apparently not. Thanks! And sorry for wasting everyone’s time. 🙂 – Jeroen J. Laika online entertainment * * *