Devise and confirmation emails

Question

I am using Devise in my Rails app and am sending out emails for email confirmation, password reset, and password change advisory.

• I would like to know how I would pass in a different image into each of these emails so that I don't need to pass a load of HTML to the layout. Ideally, I would like to pass the image over to the layout if that is at all possible, maybe I need to do this in the controller?

• How would I go about sending out a different email if a user is only updating their existing email? Currently, devise sends the same confirmation email.

• Finally, how would I go about sending a welcome email once they have initially confirmed their account, and not if they are only updating their email?

All help would be much appreciated, thanks

Answer 1

You can override devise mailer to meet your requirements.

First of all create DeviseMailer

# app/mailers/devise/mailer.eb
if defined?(ActionMailer)
  class Devise::Mailer < Devise.parent_mailer.constantize
    include Devise::Mailers::Helpers

    def confirmation_instructions(record, token, opts = {})
      @token = token
      if record.pending_reconfirmation?
        devise_mail(record, :reconfirmation_instructions, opts)
      else
        devise_mail(record, :confirmation_instructions, opts)
      end
    end

    def reset_password_instructions(record, token, opts = {})
      @token = token
      devise_mail(record, :reset_password_instructions, opts)
    end

    def unlock_instructions(record, token, opts = {})
      @token = token
      devise_mail(record, :unlock_instructions, opts)
    end
  end
end

Then just create needed views in app/views/devise/mailer/ for each of methods:

• reconfirmation_instructions, will be called when user changes they email
• confirmation_instructions, will be called when user confirms they email
• unlock_instructions, when account is locked
• reset_instructions, on password reset

Actually you can create any template you'd like.

Hope that will help.