ruby on rails - RubyOnbRails - Render mail to string -

i have rubyonrails 3.2.x application sends out mails using actionmailer.

the code goes this:

class mymailer < actionmailer::base      def sendout         mail(:to->"someone@somewhere.com", :from ...........     end  end 

instead of sending out email, want rendered string plan process differently

ps: in specific case want pass string node.js server actual sending of mail, using rubyonrails handle multi language support , number formatting (yes have multiple templates different languages support).

since ruby won't doing email sending, there's no need use mailer.

ideally generate json string representation of email like:

# @ top of file require 'json'  # in method json_string = {    :to => "email@example.com",   :from =>"sender@example.com",   :body => "this body" }.to_json 

then post string node.js server (for example) controller or whatever calling mailer.

however, since want render email using templates pull in db fields , use i18n functionality of rails, use mailer render result string follows:

mail(to: "mail@example.com") |format|   format.html     string = render_to_string("your_template")      call_node_js(string)   end end