Using Gmail with Rails

Posted: 03/29/2009

To send email from Rails using your Google Apps account, you will need TLS support:

  sudo gem install tlsmail



Next, edit environment.rb to look like this:




  Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
    config.gem "tlsmail"
    ...
  end
  Net::SMTP.enable_tls(OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE)





Then add this to environments/development.rb:




  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
    :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
    :port => "25",
    :domain => "your_domain.com",
    :user_name => "your_login@your_domain.com",
    :password => "your_password",
    :authentication => :login
  }





Test it out by sending an email to yourself, create the model mailer.rb:




  class Mailer < ActionMailer::Base
    def test
      from "your name <your_login@your_domain.com>"
      recipients ["your_login@your_domain.com"]
      subject "working?"
      body "sending from rails"
    end
  end





Finally, from script/console:




  Mailer.deliver_test






        
     


     

        
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