ActionMailer & gmail

use ActionMailer to send email ( with gmail)

ex:

require 'rubygems' 

require 'action_mailer' 

require 'smtp_tls'

class Emailer <>

  def test_email(email_address, email_body) 

    recipients(email_address) 

    from "peter@gmail.com" 

    subject "This is a test e-mail" 

    body email_body 

  end 

end

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { 

  :address => "smtp.gmail.com", 

  #25 ,465

  :port => 587, 

  #:domain => "localhost.localdomain",

  :authentication => :plain, 

  :user_name => "peter", 

  :password => "xxxxxx", 

}

Emailer.deliver_test_email('jack@yahoo.com', 'this is a test email')

smtp_tls is for sending email from gmail

send by gmail in rails:

1. add smtp_tls.rb in configure directory

2. add  require 'smtp_tls'  in environment.rb