I'm trying to send some emails from my web application. Here is my configuration:
//config/environments/development.rb
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
address: 'smtp.gmail.com',
port: 587,
domain: 'domain.com',
user_name: 'myusername',
password: 'mypassword',
authentication: 'plain',
enable_starttls_auto: true }
// mailers/contact_mailer
class ContactMailer < ApplicationMailer
default from: '[email protected]'
def send_email()
mail(to: '[email protected]', subject: 'Welcome to My Awesome Site')
end
end
// views/contact_mailer/send_email.html.erb
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' http-equiv='Content-Type' />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to example.com, name</h1>
<p>
<p>Thanks for joining and have a great day!</p>
</body>
</html>
So to test it, I ran this command from the Rails command:
ContactMailer.send_email
And I'm getting this result:
irb(main):003:0> ContactMailer.send_email
Rendered contact_mailer/send_email.html.erb within layouts/mailer (0.1ms)
ContactMailer#send_email: processed outbound mail in 10.4ms
=> #<Mail::Message:69980432504260, Multipart: false, Headers: <From: [email protected]>, <To: [email protected]>, <Subject: Welcome to My Awesome Site>, <Mime-Version: 1.0>, <Content-Type: text/html>>
irb(main):004:0>
Unfortunately, after checking my email, I don't receive the email
mail only generates a mailer object. You need to append something like deliver_now for it to actually send. For example:
ContactMailer.send_email.deliver_now