helpers in mailing templates

i'm having a problem using custom helpers in mailing templates. because action mailer never uses a controller it doesn't inherit the helper module and i sadly can also not use the helpers from the controller than calls the deliver method. this seems like a shortcoming, not a feature.

anybody come up with a work around. i know you can use rails default helpers like truncate, so it must be possible to stuff the custom ones somewhere.

thanks for any help. lawrence

Try adding:

  include ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper   include ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper   include ApplicationHelper

to the class, or atleast the ApplicationHelper one. I haven't tried it, but it may work.