Passed data to custom email view is not avaliable - php

Question

As you know, send a email via laravel is so simple as:
// setting data
$data = array(
'band' => 'Kings of leon'
);
// send email
\Mail::send('emails.activation', $data , function($message)
{
$message->to('foo#example.com', 'John Smith')->subject('Welcome!');
});
Then in /app/views/emails/activation.blade.php view could contains a not complicated structure:
My fav band is {{ $band }}. Here a logo:
<img src="{{ $message->embed('/img/logo_small.png') }}" alt="">
Views path:
/app/config/views.php
'paths' => array(DIR.'/../views', ),
Everything above works like a champ. However, if you change the email view from emails.activation to another one belonging in different path from default cause two problem:
The $message var is not longer available in the view
The $data arg is not passed to the view.
So, lets see:
// setting data
$data = array(
'band' => 'Kings of leon'
);
// send email using different view outside of default path
\Mail::send('theme::views.emails.activation', $data , function($message)
{
$message->to('foo#example.com', 'John Smith')->subject('Welcome!');
});
The view is successfully found, but when it is compiled throws two exception stating undefined var: $message and undefined var: $band.
am I missing an extra-configuration? or is it a bug? Thank you.
update
After an exhaustive revision, the problem resided in a calling of the email view twice in the same controller, for example:
$stringLocation = \Theme::getViewLocation('emails.activation');
... more stuff here
\Mail::send($stringLocation, $data , function($message)
{
$message->to('foo#example.com', 'John Smith')->subject('Welcome!');
});
So, calling getViewLocation() compiled the view, and of course, the data were not present at this exact point. My bad was believe that the error was in \Mail::send line than getViewLocation.