Question

I using sorcery for email activation and I’ve followed their wiki tutorial: https://github.com/NoamB/sorcery/wiki/User-Activation.
I’m pretty sure the problem lies within sending out emails and less so towards activation because that is another issue.

Here’s the code for User Mailer:

class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  default :from => "[e-mail]"

  def activation_needed_email(user)
    @user = user
    @url = "http://0.0.0.0:3000/users/#{user.activation_token}/activate"

    mail :to => user.email,
         :subject => "Welcome to PolyHerd.com"
  end
end

Here’s my development.rb file:

SampleApp::Application.configure do
  # Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb

  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
   ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true   


ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings              = {
      :address              => "smtp.gmail.com",
      :port                 => "587",
      :domain               => "localhost:3000",
      :enable_starttls_auto => true,
      :authentication       => "plain",
      :user_name            => "[e-mail]",
      :password             => "my_pw"
  }

I’m getting this when I run the code through console:

ruby-1.9.2-p180 :017 > UserMailer.activation_needed_email(u).deliver
ActionView::Template::Error: ActionView::Template::Error
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/activemodel-3.0.10/lib/active_model/attribute_methods.rb:392:in `method_missing'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/activerecord-3.0.10/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:46:in `method_missing'
    from /Users/x/sample_app/app/views/user_mailer/activation_needed_email.text.erb:1:in `_app_views_user_mailer_activation_needed_email_text_erb__925048320772673370_2171058260_3164940035285331741'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/action_view/template.rb:135:in `block in render'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/activesupport-3.0.10/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:54:in `instrument'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/action_view/template.rb:127:in `render'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/action_view/render/rendering.rb:59:in `block in _render_template'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/activesupport-3.0.10/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:52:in `block in instrument'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/activesupport-3.0.10/lib/active_support/notifications/instrumenter.rb:21:in `instrument'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/activesupport-3.0.10/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:52:in `instrument'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/action_view/render/rendering.rb:56:in `_render_template'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/action_view/render/rendering.rb:26:in `render'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/abstract_controller/rendering.rb:115:in `_render_template'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/abstract_controller/rendering.rb:109:in `render_to_body'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/abstract_controller/rendering.rb:102:in `render_to_string'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/abstract_controller/rendering.rb:93:in `render'
... 7 levels...
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionmailer-3.0.10/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:673:in `mail'
    from /Users/x/sample_app/app/mailers/user_mailer.rb:14:in `activation_needed_email'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb:150:in `process_action'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb:119:in `process'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionpack-3.0.10/lib/abstract_controller/rendering.rb:41:in `process'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionmailer-3.0.10/lib/action_mailer/old_api.rb:75:in `process'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionmailer-3.0.10/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:471:in `process'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionmailer-3.0.10/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:466:in `initialize'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionmailer-3.0.10/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:450:in `new'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/actionmailer-3.0.10/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:450:in `method_missing'
    from (irb):17
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/railties-3.0.10/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:44:in `start'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/railties-3.0.10/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:in `start'
    from /Users/x/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/railties-3.0.10/lib/rails/commands.rb:23:in `<top (required)>'
    from script/rails:6:in `require'

EDIT:
Here’s the email template:

Welcome to PolyHerd.com, <%= @user.username %>
===============================================

Congratulations, you are now a part of Poly Herd,
your username is: <%= @user.username %>.

To activate your account, just follow this link: <%= @url %>.

Thanks for joining and have a great day!

Answer 1

I was getting no error, however mails were not going out.
On looking at your domain, I got tempted to change mine. Am also in development mode. I changed it to localhost:3000, and mails are now coming through.

You guys rock!!!

Simon