unable send pdf attachment in email generated from wicked-pdf in rails?

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I am trying to send the pdf as an attachment in the email. but getting an error.

ctionView::MissingTemplate at /invoises/BRUqWOeEVNSN6GCwxQqLGg%253D%253D/send_invoice_email Missing template invoises/#{invoise.id}/show_pdf_invoice.pdf.erb with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html, :text, :js, :css, :ics, :csv, :vcf, :png, :jpeg, :gif, :bmp, :tiff, :m

i am using wicked_pdf gem.trying to generate the pdf from html view

method in controller

  def send_invoice_email
    CompanyMailer.invoice(@invoise.id).deliver
    redirect_to invoices_path, notice: 'Invoice Sent successfully.' 
  end

logic in mailer:

def invoice(invoice)
  invoice = Invoice.find(invoice)
  attachments["invoice.pdf"] = WickedPdf.new.pdf_from_string(
    render_to_string(:pdf => "invoice",:template => 'invoices/#{invoice.id}/show_pdf_invoice.pdf.erb')
  )

  mail(to: "[email protected]", subject: 'Your todo PDF is attached')
end

method in controller

  def show_pdf_invoice
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { render :layout => false }
      format.pdf do
    render pdf: "show_pdf_invoice"
    #render :pdf => "pdf"#, :layout => 'pdf.html.erb'
      end
    end
  end

and in invoices/show_pdf_invoice.pdf.erb

  <h1>this is pdf invoice.<h1>

and in company_mailer/invoice.html.erb

  please find attached pdf.
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John On

Issue is fixed. i need not to pass id in the url. i need to pass only render_to_string(template: 'invoices/show_pdf_invoice.pdf.erb')