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DelPiero
DelPiero

Reputation: 489

Where to set host name for dev/staging/production in Rails?

My Rails (3.2.21) app sends a lot of email, and it's frequently tested in dev and staging environments. As a result, whenever there's a URL in the email body, the host name needs to match the environment. Example:

Currently, I have an initializer in initializers/setup_email.rb that sets the ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options[:host] variable depending on the environment (this initializer also sets up other email settings fwiw). Staging for instance is ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options[:host] = "example.staging.com".

The dev conditional block however has a :host AND :port, so it looks like this:

ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options[:host] = "localhost"
ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options[:port] = 3000

In my mailer classes, I have these ugly conditionals everywhere there's a URL to display, since I need to account for port in dev. Like this:

if Rails.env.production? || Rails.env.staging?
    @url = "http://#{ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options[:host]}/something"
elsif Rails.env.development?
    @url = "http://#{ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options[:host]}:#{ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options[:port]}/something"
end

What best practice am I missing here? Should I just have the above conditional statement once atop my mailer class before any methods, so I set a @host variable once and forget it?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4076

Answers (2)

vladiim
vladiim

Reputation: 1960

You can also save it as an environment variable ENV["HOST_URL"]

Upvotes: 0

max pleaner
max pleaner

Reputation: 26778

I think the easiest way is to define a custom constant in development.rb, production.rb, and staging.rb.

Something like:

# development.rb
mailer_host = ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options[:host] = "localhost"
mailer_port = ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options[:port] = 3000
MailerURL = "http://#{mailer_host}:#{mailer_port}"

# production.rb
mailer_host = ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options[:host] = "foo.com"
MailerURL = "http://#{mailer_host}"

That way you can avoid the conditionals. Just use MailerURL and it will be different depending on the environment

Upvotes: 1

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