Is it possible to use ActionMailer in a web framework like Ramaze, or do I need to use Rails?
You can use ActionMailer without Rails quite easily. I'm not familiar with Ramaze, but here's plain ruby, which should be easy to integrate into whatever framework you wish:
PATH/mailer.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'action_mailer'
class Mailer < ActionMailer::Base
def my_email
recipients "recipient@their_domain.com"
from "me@my_domain.com"
subject "my subject"
body :variable1 => 'a', :variable2 => 'b'
end
end
Mailer.template_root = File.dirname(__FILE__)
Mailer.delivery_method = :sendmail
Mailer.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
# this sends the email
Mailer.deliver_my_email
Then put the email templates in a directory named after the your ActionMailer class
PATH/mailer/my_email.html.erb
variable 1: <%= @variable1 %>
variable 2: <%= @variable2 %>
Check out the API Docs for more configuration options, but those are the basics