Working With Rails

Action Mailer Optional Tls

= action_mailer_optional_tls

Allows Google Mail SMTP to be used with Ruby on Rails’ ActionMailer.

Install ./script/plugin install git://github.com/collectiveidea/action_mailer_optional_tls.git Configure

Add the following to your environment.rb file:

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
   :tls => true,
   :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
   :port => "587",
   :domain => "YOURDOMAIN",
   :authentication => :plain,
   :user_name => "GOOGLEUSERNAME",
   :password => "GOOGLEPASSWORD" 
 }

Webified Documentation

http://douglasfshearer.com/blog/gmail-smtp-with-ruby-on-rails-and-actionmailer

Credits

This useful plugin is hosted at http://douglasfshearer.com as a public service, due to the continued downtime of http://kylemaxwell.com

Douglas F Shearer is neither the creator nor maintainer of this work, so if it’s broke, it’s broke.

Created by Kyle Maxwell – http://kylemaxwell.com/

Forked and adjusted by Nathan L. Walls – http://wallscorp.us/ to resolve the issue describe here: http://blog.inspired.no/smtp-error-while-using-gmail-in-rails-271 and satisfy differences between Ruby 1.8.6 and Ruby 1.8.7. Note: this is brittle, but solves a need.

NOTE: This description has been extracted from the Plugin README and so the formatting may need updating to make browser friendly