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Marco Prins
Marco Prins

Reputation: 7419

Rails delayed_job in development environment

Say you have a mailer with an action in Rails, being called from some model using delay, for example:

class ReportMailer < ActionMailer::Base

  default from: "[email protected]"

  def order_received(order)
    @order = order
    mail(:to => @order.shop.email, :subject  => "You have a new order on Shopstar")
  end
end

order.rb:

      if self.shop.email_preference.on_order?
       ReportMailer.delay.order_received(self) unless self.source == "pos"
      end

Will this send the mail from a development environment?

and

Will this send the mail in the production version?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3458

Answers (5)

Nimir
Nimir

Reputation: 5839

delayed job workers need to be running,

For development mode run:

RAILS_ENV=development bundle exec bin/delayed_job start

You may face that error:

bash: bin/delayed_job: No such file or directory

So you will have to generate the bin/delayed_job file running that command:

bundle exec rails generate delayed_job

While in production you should run:

RAILS_ENV=production bin/delayed_job start

Above commands are for Rails 4. For Rails 3, you should do:

script/delayed_job instead of bin/delayed_job

Check delayed_jobs page for more details

Upvotes: 8

techvineet
techvineet

Reputation: 5111

First let me answer your second question to send mail from your system whether live/development, you need smtp settings. For SMTP settings example you can took a look at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html .

Secondly, this configuration settings goes in one of the environment files. In which environment file it goes depends on which environment your application is running. If your live server is running in development environment then these changes will be made in config/environments/development.rb

Hope that clarifies.

Upvotes: 0

Richard Peck
Richard Peck

Reputation: 76774

Will this send the mail from a development environment?

It will send an email depending on your STMP settings

Rails has settings for config.action_mailer, which you can define in both config/environments/development.rb & config/environments/production.rb:

  #config/environments/development.rb
  config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
  config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
      :address              => "smtp.gmail.com",
      :port                 => 587,
      :domain               => "************.co.uk",
      :user_name            => "****@gmail.com",
      :password             => ENV["gmail"],
      :authentication       => :plain,
      :enable_starttls_auto => true
  }
  config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => "localhost:3000"}

Whichever environment you run delayed_job on, you need to be sure these details are set up in your environment config files

Upvotes: 0

Shadwell
Shadwell

Reputation: 34774

With an unchanged environment configuration then it won't send emails in development and it will send emails in production.

You should see something like this in config/environments/development.rb:

config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries    = false

Which prevents emails from being sent in your development environment. You can find more details on the configuration options for action mailer in the configuration guide

Don't forget if you are delaying sending messages then you need your delayed jobs to be processed too.

Upvotes: 0

Jakub Kuchar
Jakub Kuchar

Reputation: 1665

Will this send the mail from a development environment? Will this send the mail in the production version?

Its all depends on your environment smtp setting in each file (development.rb,production.rb)

In order to use delayed job in your environment requires running worker to handle this in background. Try look at foreman gem to help you which can run server and worker just using foreman start.

Upvotes: 0

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