How to setup mail on development with Ruby on Rails?

Question

I downloaded a project from github that has a mailer when deployed to production, but on my own local copy the mailer doesn't work. How do I setup mail locally for development so that I can test it?

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5286009/actionmailer-and-development-mode-can-it-write-to-a-file-or-something. — Brian Donovan, Nov 20 '11 at 20:17

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '11 at 22:43

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You can use letter_opener gem by Ryan Bates

answered Nov 20 '11 at 22:43

Andrey Kryachkov

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thanks, i liked this one the most from the answers provided. I personally ended up using the answer in the duplicate question here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5286009/actionmailer-and-development-mode-can-it-write-to-a-file-or-something as it didn't need me to install anything, but this would be my second option. – GiH Dec 07 '11 at 06:11

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '11 at 16:45

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You can try the MailCatcher gem https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher

answered Nov 21 '11 at 16:45

Pragnesh Vaghela

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score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 07 '19 at 22:14

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You don't need a gem.

In:

config/environments/development.rb

Set

Rails.application.configure do
  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :file
end

Then look for the mails in

PROJECT_ROOT/tmp/mails/email@example.com

answered Jan 07 '19 at 22:14

FreePender

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 20 '11 at 21:20

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I use this when testing email during local development. Hope this helps

http://papercut.codeplex.com/

answered Nov 20 '11 at 21:20

Darren

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How to setup mail on development with Ruby on Rails?

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