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Dennis Best
Dennis Best

Reputation: 3654

Rails 4 action mailer environment variables

I'm creating simple form to email form using actionmailer in a Rails 4 app.

When I use the following settings in my development.rb file everything works fine:

  config.action_mailer.default :charset => "utf-8"
  config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
  config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
      address: "mail.hover.com",
      port: 587,
      domain: "blah.com",
      user_name: "[email protected]",
      password: "thisBeMyPassword",
      authentication: 'plain',
      enable_starttls_auto: true,
      openssl_verify_mode: 'none'
  }

But when I try to use a an ENV variable in my code like so, I get an authentication fails error:

  config.action_mailer.default :charset => "utf-8"
  config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
  config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
      address: "mail.hover.com",
      port: 587,
      domain: "blah.com",
      user_name: "[email protected]",
      password: ENV["MY_EMAIL_PASSWORD"],
      authentication: 'plain',
      enable_starttls_auto: true,
      openssl_verify_mode: 'none'
  }

I can see this variable in the terminal when I use printenv in the console and when I stick puts ENV["MY_EMAIL_PASSWORD"] in the code.

I've triple-checked spelling, capitalization, etc.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1090

Answers (1)

Mathias
Mathias

Reputation: 459

I can't see the problem but I can recommend the figaro gem. It makes it really easy to handle environment variables. Give it a try and let me know.

Upvotes: 1

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