Sending mail via GMail with Rails ActionMailer
If you are wondering how to get your Rails app to send email through your GMail account, read on…
However, you need at least Ruby 1.8.7 according to the Agile Web Development with Rails book. I use BlueHost and they are on 1.8.6, as of July 27, 2009. So, these instructions won’t work on BlueHost (yet).
By default, ActionMailer cannot send email through GMail as it does not support SSL (TLS) and GMail requires this.
To implement this, simply
sudo gem install tlsmail
and in your environment.rb, configure ActionMailer as follows. Place it after the Rails::Initializer.run block, at the end. be sure to replace your email, username and password with what I have below:
require 'tlsmail'
Net::SMTP.enable_tls(OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE)
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp
ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true
ActionMailer::Base.default_charset = "utf-8"
ActionMailer::Base.raise_delivery_errors = true
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:domain => "youremail@gmail.com",
:address => 'smtp.gmail.com',
:port => 587,
:tls => true,
:authentication => :plain,
:user_name => 'yourusername',
:password => 'TYPEYOURPASSWORDHERE'
}
Once you do the above, follow instructions on page 611 through 615, in the PDF version of the Agile Web Development with Rails book:
1. ruby script/generate mailer OrderMailer confirm sent
2. Create a simple email template for now
3. Do something similar to this to send email, from your controller:
class TestController < ApplicationController
def ship_order
order = Order.find_by_name("Dave Thomas")
email = OrderMailer.create_sent(order)
email.set_content_type("text/html")
OrderMailer.deliver(email)
render(:text => "Thank you...")
end
end
2 Comments to “Sending mail via GMail with Rails ActionMailer”
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Hi
i was trying this out, but when i run the
script/generate mailer OrderMailer confirm sent
i get the following error
:10: uninitialized constant ActionMailer (NameError)
from /home/forellana/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p174%test_algo/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:111:in `run’
from /home/forellana/workspace/ATS/ats_front/config/environment.rb:9
from /home/forellana/.rvm/ruby-1.8.7-p174/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require’
from /home/forellana/.rvm/ruby-1.8.7-p174/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’
from /home/forellana/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p174%test_algo/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/commands/generate.rb:1
from /home/forellana/.rvm/ruby-1.8.7-p174/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require’
from /home/forellana/.rvm/ruby-1.8.7-p174/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’
from script/generate:3
But i was doing things like you told, so it’s weird… can you help me with this?
thanks, greetings
Actually there is no need for additional gems/plugins for TLS support in ActionMailer, as this support has been there for some time already.
All you need is to put this directive in your smtp_settings:
:enable_starttls_auto => true
Tickets #1336 and #1731 at https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/ is about the subject.