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class ApplicationMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  default sender: "ben@thorcinemas.com"
  layout 'mailer'
end

class UserMailer < ApplicationMailer
  default from: 'notifications@example.com'

  def welcome_email(user)
    @user = user
    @url  = 'http://localhost:3000/users/login'
    mail(to: @user.email, subject: 'Welcome to My Awesome Site')
  end
end

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' http-equiv='Content-Type' />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Welcome to example.com, <%= @user.first_name %></h1>
    <p>
      You have successfully signed up to example.com,
      your username is: <%= @user.first_name %><%= @user.last_name %>.<br>
    </p>
    <p>
      To login to the site, just follow this link: <%= @url %>.
    </p>
    <p>Thanks for joining and have a great day!</p>
  </body>
</html>

Welcome to example.com, <%= @user.first_name %>
===============================================

You have successfully signed up to example.com,
your username is: <%= @user.first_name %><%= @user.last_name %>.

To login to the site, just follow this link: <%= @url %>.

Thanks for joining and have a great day!

def create
    @user = User.new(user_params)
    if @user.save
      # login is achieved by saving a user's 'id' in a session variable,
      # accessible to all pages
       session[:user_id] = @user.id
       UserMailer.welcome_email(@user).deliver_later
       redirect_to films_path
    else
       render action: "new"
    end
  end

create_table "users", force: :cascade do |t|
    t.string   "password_digest"
    t.string   "role"
    t.datetime "created_at",      null: false
    t.datetime "updated_at",      null: false
    t.string   "first_name"
    t.string   "last_name"
    t.string   "house_no"
    t.string   "street"
    t.string   "town"
    t.string   "postcode"
    t.string   "email"
    t.date     "date_of_birth"
  end