Url_for in ActionMailer?

Rails
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I’d like to insert a url in an email template. I tried this, but it
gives an ‘undefined method’
error (probably because ActionMailer doesn’t derive from
ActionController or apparently have
access to the ActionView helpers):

<%= url_for :controller=>‘member’, :action=>‘show’,
:username=>@member.username %>

Is there a quick and easy workaround?

thanks
csn

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CSN <cool_screen_name90001@…> writes:

I’d like to insert a url in an email template. I tried this, but it gives an
‘undefined method’

Is there a quick and easy workaround?

Quick and easy? Yes. Satisfying? Definitely not.

Just generate the URL in your controller and pass it to the template as
a
parameter. Works fine, but it just isn’t right: it’s so obvious that
you will
want to email computed URLs to people that you should be able to do it
directly.

Rails ticket #1138 (http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/1138) is about
this.

–Forrest