Question

I am not able to run ar_sendmail command from my terminal. I don’t think i have missed its configuration. Below is my code;

development.rb
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ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :activerecord
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
  :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
  :port => 25,
  :domain => "www.google.com",
  :authentication => :plain,
  :user_name => "[e-mail]",
  :password => "kathmandu",
  :enable_starttls_auto => true
}
require "action_mailer/ar_mailer"

Gemfile 
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gem "ar_mailer", "1.5.1"

My Mailer
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class Postoffice < ActionMailer::ARMailer
  def recover_password_email(account, name, address)
    @recipients = address
    @from = "[e-mail]"
    @subject = "Your Account at #{account.org_name} is Ready"
    @body["subdomain"] = account.subdomain
    @body["name"] = name
    @body["org_name"] = account.org_name
    @body["password"] = password
    @body["email"] = address
  end
end

My controller
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def reset_password
    @user = User.find_by_email(params[:email])

    begin
      if @user
        password = get_new_password
        @user.update_attributes!(:password => password)
        Postoffice.deliver_recover_password_email(@account, @user.individual.firstname, @user.email, password)
        flash[:notice] = "Your password has been e-mailed to you. It should show up in a minute!"
        redirect_to '/sessions/new'      
      end
    rescue
      flash[:notice] = "Sorry, there was a problem resetting your password."
      redirect_to '/sessions/new'
    end
  end
end

Whenever I run ar_sendmail command I just get below message. If i hit RAILS_ROOT in console then I it shows /Users/me/Dev/a5his

Usage: ar_sendmail [options]

ar_sendmail scans the email table for new messages and sends them to the
website's configured SMTP host.

ar_sendmail must be run from a Rails application's root or have it specified
with --chdir.

If ar_sendmail is started with --pid-file, it will fail to start if the PID
file already exists or the contents don't match it's PID.

Sendmail options:
    -b, --batch-size BATCH_SIZE      Maximum number of emails to send per delay
                                     Default: Deliver all available emails
        --delay DELAY                Delay between checks for new mail
                                     in the database
                                     Default: 60
        --max-age MAX_AGE            Maxmimum age for an email. After this
                                     it will be removed from the queue.
                                     Set to 0 to disable queue cleanup.
                                     Default: 604800 seconds
    -o, --once                       Only check for new mail and deliver once
                                     Default: false
    -p, --pid-file [PATH]            File to store the pid in.
                                     Defaults to /var/run/ar_sendmail.pid
                                     when no path is given
    -d, --daemonize                  Run as a daemon process
                                     Default: false
        --mailq                      Display a list of emails waiting to be sent

Setup Options:
        --create-migration           Prints a migration to add an Email table
                                     to stdout
        --create-model               Prints a model for an Email ActiveRecord
                                     object to stdout

Generic Options:
    -c, --chdir PATH                 Use PATH for the application path
                                     Default: .
    -e, --environment RAILS_ENV      Set the RAILS_ENV constant
                                     Default: 
    -t, --table-name TABLE_NAME      Name of table holding emails
                                     Used for both sendmail and
                                     migration creation
                                     Default: Email
    -v, --[no-]verbose               Be verbose
                                     Default: 
    -h, --help                       You're looking at it


ar_sendmail must be run from a Rails application's root to deliver email.

/Users/me/Dev/a5his does not appear to be a Rails application root.

Thanks in advance <><

Answer 1

How about using Delayed Job? I’ve used ar mailer in the past and find delayed job a much better solution.

https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job