Using subject from Mandrill template? about mandrill_mailer HOT 7 CLOSED

Hello, your hunch about omitting the subject from the mandrill_mail call was good. By simply omitting the subject, the default template subject was picked up. I thought I remembered reading in the README that the subject was required. Thanks for the gem!

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There isn't a way currently. We don't ever ask mandrill for any information about the template you use, it just uses the template name when it makes the api call to send the email.

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I have the same question. Does anyone have some tips on how I can get this working without mandrill_mailer's standard functionality? Thanks!

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I'm guessing that using the template's subject means using the Template's default template from the default options?

This gem uses the send-template call from the mandrill messages api. There doesn't appear to be an option for using the template subject. It's been awhile since I've done anything new with Mandrill. When I first made this, there were no template defaults so it never came up.

At a guess, I would think that if you didn't include a subject, that Mandrill would use the default that was set. I would try not setting the subject or passing nil and see if that works. Other then that, I'm not sure what triggers the default to be used. There is a possibility that the subject attribute has to be completely removed from the api call if the subject doesn't exist. If this is the case I can do that fairly easily, but I don't have time right now to experiment undocumented functionality with their api. :( If you want to make your own api calls and see how to trigger the default I can probably find some time next week to make it work.

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I've made the docs clearer, and as this actually does work I'm going to close this issue. ❤️

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Great! Thanks for testing that out. :)

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I actually had some issues getting this to work by omitting the parameter. I was able to make it work by supplying subject: nil as a parameter.

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