undefined local variable or method `account'

[dbbooke]

Hi, might be a dumb question but for some reason when I put this code in my views I get this error. undefined local variable or method `account'

I should be defining account as a variable in my controller right?

<%= link_to 'invite a friend',
new_invite_path(invite: { invitable_id: account.id, invitable_type: 'Account' } ) %>``

[tomichj]

Not a dumb question at all, I definitely need to expand and clean up the documentation. The "account" is a resource you're inviting people to join for this particular example. You would plug in whatever resource your users are sending invites to join. In this example, I was using the Basecamp-style concept of account.

[dbbooke]

Awesome. It seem like that error went away but for reason another one popped up?

[tomichj]

You're getting 'undefined method: invitable_name'. The method invitable_name is added by the invitable mixin. The readme has a section about it. Basically, any resource you want to invite users to, should call invitable and tell it how to "name" the resource.

class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
  invitable named_by: :name
end

Here, Company has an attribute 'name' that is used as the 'invitable_name'. Anytime an invitation is generated to a Company resource, the invitable_name (which fetches name) will be used in the invitation.

[dbbooke]

Thanks! I have no errors now. Just one more question, if i wanted to over ride the config/locales/invitation.en.yml default messages how can I? I saw something about i18n translations. I just never worked with it before.

Also, I have no errors but the email doesn't actually send through. I changed the initializer/invitation.rb sender email. Do I have to use a third party app like sendgrid for the actual message to deliver? I see in the invites_controller.rb file theres a method 'def deliver_email' and it uses the deliver_later gem. However, that gem is outdated and not maintained anymore.

[tomichj]

The default translations live in the gem at config/locales/invitation.en.yml. You can make your own locale file in your app (in config/locales) and just overload any values you want to modify. There's also a generator included with invitation that will install a copy of the locale files in your app, along with the mailer views, so that you can completely change the emails if you want. To run that generator: rails generate invitation:views.

Regarding sending email: you're correct, you'll need to configure your rails app to send email through... something. It could be your local host, but I would recommend using a service like Sendgrid. I use Sendgrid on heroku, it's easy to use and it's free for low-volume apps.