Think of emails as views delivered through SMTP (DHH)

By David Heinemeier Hansson on November 9, 2009 ActionMailers has to deal with a bit of a split personality. On the one hand, their organization and flow structure is very much akin to controllers. They have multiple methods that all correspond to actions. They render views from templates. They can even have layouts. On the other hand, Rails by default puts them in app/models. Looking at these two