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alik
alik

Reputation: 3870

How to disable ActionMailer in Development?

sometimes when I am developing, I do not have an internet connection. This results in an error wherever my app is supposed to send an email:

getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

Is there a simple and quick way where i can change a config value to make ActionMailer just not try to actually send out an email and not throw an error? Maybe something thats scoped to the development environment. Or some other way I can avoid the error being thrown and my code passing wherever I call the actionmailer deliver?

I'm using Rails 3.1

Upvotes: 32

Views: 20183

Answers (2)

dhulihan
dhulihan

Reputation: 11293

If you want to disable mail deliveries after your rails app has been initialized (while creating sample data, during migrations, etc.):

ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = false

Upvotes: 17

Wizard of Ogz
Wizard of Ogz

Reputation: 12643

It's common practice to just let Rails ignore the mail errors. In your config/environments/development.rb file add, uncomment or modify:

# Don't care if the mailer can't send
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false

You can also set this:

config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = false

See the documentation here http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#action-mailer-configuration

You can also set the delivery method to :test, but I have not actually tried that

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :test

Upvotes: 69

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