Database and Actionmailer configuration for Bostonrb

<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.1 (Unix)"> <meta name="AUTHOR" content="Phoebe "> <meta name="CREATED" content="20091104;16524100"> <meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="Phoebe "> <meta name="CHANGED" content="20091104;18392000"> <style type="text/css"> <!— @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } A:link { so-language: zxx } —> </style> </head> <body dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> I downloaded the bostonrb code and spent some time to figure out how to make it work. I collected this stuff from many sources. I hope this document can save some time for other newbies. Database Configuration Install mysql (or sqllite3) and make sure that a user (or root) to be used in the configuration has been granted permission to create a database and access it. In mysql, a very broad grant can be in the form of: <pre> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'phoebe'@'localhost' identified by 'somepasswd'</pre> Create a config/database.yml file to use this database. It follows this general format: <pre style="margin-left: 80px;"> development: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 reconnect: false database: bostonrb_development pool: 5 username: phoebe password: socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock test: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 reconnect: false database: bostonrb_test pool: 5 username: phoebe password: socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock production: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 reconnect: false database: bostonrb_production pool: 5 username: root password: socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock </pre> <div style="text-align: left;">ActionMailer Configuration to send email Actionmailer can use either sendmail or smtp. Here, I am writing up directions to use smtp with gmail. I also prefer to use gmail instead of my regular ISP account because of portability. Gmail requires ssl support, which is build into ruby 1.8.7, but not in ruby 1.8.6. If you don’t care about using ssl, you can omit it, or check out:<a href="http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer"> http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer</a> where I adapted the following code. In order to add ssl into 1.8.6., you need to add smtp_tls.rb to actionmailer. There are a few implementations. In the the end openrain worked for me. <li>If you are running 1.8.6 and want to use gmail, install smtp_tls: </li> <pre>gem install openrain-action_mailer_tls -s http://gems.github.com </pre> <li>Create a file called ‘config/initializers/actionmailer.rb’ with the following content.</li> <pre> require "smtp_tls"#Load mail configuration if not in test environment if RAILS_ENV !='test' email_settings = YAML::load(File.open("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/email.yml")) ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true ActionMailer::Base.default_charset = "utf-8" ActionMailer::Base.raise_delivery_errors = true ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = email_settings[RAILS_ENV] unless email_settings[RAILS_ENV].nil? End </pre> <li>Create a file called config/email.yml with the following content</li> <pre> development: :domain: gmail.com :address: smtp.gmail.com :port: 587 :authentication: plain :user_name: mylogin@gmail.com :password: mypasswd production: :address: smtp.gmail.com :port: 587 :authentication: plain :domain: gmail.com :user_name: mylogin@gmail.com :password: mypasswd </pre> Alternatively, instead of creating the two files above, in a pinch you can also put the following at the bottom of config/environment.rb to make it work quickly. <pre> require "smtp_tls" ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true ActionMailer::Base.raise_delivery_errors = true ActionMailer::Base.default_charset = "utf-8" ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { # enable_starttls_auto = 'true', # For 1.8.7 only,skip this one for 1.8.6 address = "smtp.gmail.com", port = 587, domain = 'gmail.com', user_name => "login@gmail.com", password = "passwd", authentication = :plain } </pre> I use the following code to test different combos until I got it right. <pre style="margin-left: 80px;"> require 'rubygems' require 'action_mailer' require 'smtp_tls' class SimpleMailer < ActionMailer::Base def simple_message(recipient) from 'rubydevtues@gmail.com' recipients recipient subject 'I just sent this from gmail' body 'hope this works' end end ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { :address => 'smtp.gmail.com', :domain => 'smtp.gmail.com', :port => '587', :user_name => 'phoebe', :password => 'passwd', :use_tls => 'true', :authentication =>'plain' } SimpleMailer.deliver_simple_message('phoebe@address.net') </pre> </body> </html> 2009-11-26T19:01:43-08:00 384445 database-and-actionmailer-configuration-for-bostonrb

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