Rails - Devise send user email after sign_up/create

Question

I\'m fairly new to rails and trying to figure things out. I recently got a mailer all setup and it was working fine. But I am trying to add a second mailer for user actions

Answer 1

When users sign up with Devise, they don't go through the UsersController.

You might want to add the mail sending code in the User model.

For example, in app/models/user.rb:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  # ...

  after_create :send_admin_mail
  def send_admin_mail
    UserMailer.send_new_user_message(self).deliver
  end

  # ...
end

This is done by utilizing the Active Record after_create callback.

Answer 2

Confirmation emails should be sent from the controller. It's simple to override the Devise::RegistrationsController defaults.

Create the file app/controllers/my_registrations_controller.rb (name this whatever you want)

class MyRegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController

  def create
    super
    if @user.persisted?
      UserMailer.new_registration(@user).deliver
    end
  end

end

Then in your routes:

devise_for :users, :controllers => { :registrations => "my_registrations" }