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sker
sker

Reputation: 18382

Simplest way to send mail with Ruby on Rails

What is the simplest way to send mail using Ruby on Rails? Is there a way to send mail directly via ruby and skip all the rails models and complexity, just like php's mail() function?

Thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 11195

Answers (6)

vrish88
vrish88

Reputation: 21477

Another excellent solution is a gem called pony. It is exactly like php's mail() function. Simply and easy.

Upvotes: 4

nitecoder
nitecoder

Reputation: 5486

I'm concerned that if you don't want to use ActionMailer that maybe you just don't get rails. ActionMailer makes sending email with good templating and the like very very easy, you really should look into it.

Upvotes: 0

Joe W.
Joe W.

Reputation: 1452

Make sure you replace all the example.com's with real values: 

require 'net/smtp'
Net::SMTP.start('smtp.example.com', 25) do |smtp|
  smtp.send_message "Subject: testing from ruby", '[email protected]', ['[email protected]', '[email protected]']
end

Upvotes: 11

Farrel
Farrel

Reputation: 2381

There's also TMail.

Upvotes: 4

Orion Edwards
Orion Edwards

Reputation: 123662

The simplest way in plain old ruby is to use net/smtp. However rails has it's own built in mailing facilities, because sending mail is something that is pretty common. The best way to do it in rails, is to use a Mailer model

Upvotes: 13

None
None

Reputation: 2947

yes check out the ruby docs...http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/

the package you want to look at is net/smtp

there is also

http://www.rfc20.org/rubymail/(ruby mail) which is popular and make it a little easier

Upvotes: 3

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