Rails ActionMailer with SendGrid

Question

I'm using SendGrid to send emails on Heroku...

The problem so far is while it works great on Heroku, on my local host it fails.

Right now I have SendGrig install here, config/setup_mail.rb:

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
  :address        => "smtp.sendgrid.net",
  :port           => "25",
  :authentication => :plain,
  :user_name      => ENV['SENDGRID_USERNAME'],
  :password       => ENV['SENDGRID_PASSWORD'],
  :domain         => ENV['SENDGRID_DOMAIN']
}

What's a Heroku/SendGrid way to allow me to make sure my mailers work in DEV. Is this setup_mail.rb file a good thing? Should it be in the env file? Any other thoughts?

Thanks

Answer 1

Using config/environments/[development.rb | production.rb] as tfe mentioned above sounds like its the way to go. Just put the ActionMailer configuration in either of those files and change it to suit the development|production environment.

You can also find your SendGrid credentials used by Heroku by issuing the following command:

heroku config --long

These credentials are used for all SendGrid authentication (SMTP Auth, Website login to view stats, etc., API access)

-- Joe

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