title: ActionMailer 3 without Rails
body: <p>I'm writing a small Ruby program that will pull records from a database and send an HTML email daily. I'm attempting to use ActionMailer 3.0.3 for this, but I'm running in to issues. All the searching I've done so far on using ActionMailer outside of Rails applies to versions prior to version 3. Could someone point me in the right direction of where to find resources on how to do this? Here's where I am so far on my mailer file:</p>
  
  <pre><code># lib/bug_mailer.rb
  require 'action_mailer'
  
  ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :file
  
  class BugMailer &lt; ActionMailer::Base
    def daily_email
      mail(
              :to      =&gt; "example@mail.com",
              :from    =&gt; "example@mail.com",
              :subject =&gt; "testing mail"
      )
    end
  end
  
  BugMailer.daily_email.deliver
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm definitely stuck on where to put my views. Every attempt I've made to tell ActionMailer where my templates are has failed.</p>
  
  <p>I guess I should also ask if there's a different way to go about accomplishing this program. Basically, I'm doing everything from scratch at this point. Obviously what makes Rails awesome is it's convention, so is trying to use parts of Rails on their own a waste of time? Is there a way to get the Rails-like environment without creating a full-blown Rails app?</p>