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    <p>Please excuse the simplicity and length of this, but I have a little test app that has a users table, with name, email, and salary attributes. I created a mailer that will send out a report of this data to a specific user at my discretion, in other words, when I click a button. My button is created using link_to, and calls an action in my main users_controller, which then calls the mailer action. (I hope that just made sense). It looks like the following and is working just as I hoped; I'm just looking to know if this is the right way to do something like this:</p> <p>In my users_controller (created by the scaffold generator): </p> <pre><code>def sendemail @user = User.find(params[:id]) UserMailer.welcome_email(@user).deliver redirect_to user_path(@user) flash[:notice] = 'Email has been sent!' end </code></pre> <p>In the user_mailer.rb file: </p> <pre><code>def welcome_email(user) @user = user @url = "http://example.com/login" mail(:to =&gt; user.email, :subject =&gt; "Welcome to My Awesome Site") end </code></pre> <p>In the User's show.html.erb page, this is how the email gets sent: </p> <pre><code>&lt;%= link_to "Send Email", sendemail_user_path(@user) %&gt; </code></pre> <p>In my routes.rb file, so that everything executes properly (which it does):</p> <pre><code>resources :users do member do get 'sendemail' end </code></pre> <p>So, having said all this, it works just like it should. I click on the user's show.html.erb page where I would have the data and charts that I want to eventually display, and at my discretion, I can kick out an email to that user with this data, or whatever I put in the mailer.html.erb file. When it is sent, it flashes the message I specified in the controller, and leaves me on that page, just as I specified; so it's working. I just want to know, is this the right and most ruby/railsy way to do things?</p>
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