From: Tamara Temple <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-07-11T09:53:51+09:00
Subject: Re: execute commands within SMTP email code: send content in variables and not actual variables

Just want to point out something quick:

On Jul 10, 2013, at 10:38 AM, dJD col <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>   File.open("/home/path/Document.txt","r") do |file|
>   ms=file

This does not read the contents of Document.txt. All it does is assign the file handle to the local variable ms. What you probably want at this point is:

  ms = file.read

However, as was previously pointed out, just doing

  ms = FIle.read("/home/path/Document.txt")

Is a lot simpler at this stage.

Further:

> msgstr = <<EOF
> ...
> ms
> 
> EOF

When you get to the ms in your message body, it's just a string at that point. As was pointed out. you need to interpolate it:

msgstr = <<EOF
…
#{ms}

EOF


The Pony gem was mentioned, I'm partial to the mail gem. Either is fine, but also learning to use the lower level std lib module is good too, for understanding. Pony and mail make things easier, but underneath they're using Net::SMTP as well.