So I created a welcome email for my users. I want this email to be sent at a specific time so I nest it into a rake task and add it to my heroku scheduler.
The thing is, the email template has images.
When I open the console and type UserMailer.welcome_email(user).deliver_now, everything work fine. Images do show up when I receive the email.
However, when I run rake send_welcome_email, the email get sent but none of the images show up inside.
Here is my user_mailer.rb:
def welcome_email(user)
@user = user
mail(to: @user.email, subject: 'Welcome !')
end
my scheduler.rake:
desc "This task is called by the Heroku scheduler add-on. It aims to send the second of the four welcome emails to new users"
task :send_welcome_email => :environment do
users = User.find_by(email: "[email protected]")
puts 'Sending welcome email...'
UserMailer.welcome_email(users).deliver_now
puts '...Done !'
end
and my image_tags in my welcome_email.html.erb:
<%= image_tag "myimage.svg" %>
<%= image_tag "email_images/myotherimage.jpg" %>
Notice that I have already tried to change the relative path like so:
where could the problem come from ?
What you can do is explicitly state which images you want in the mailer (UserMailer), like
attachments.inline['myimage.svg'] = File.read("#{Rails.root.to_s + '/app/assets/images/myimage.svg'}")
From there, you can call it in the mailer template with
<%= image_tag attachments.inline["myimage.svg"].url %>