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Using Gmail with Rails
Posted 01 March 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_PEER)
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
