Question

I’m testing Devise authentication for Rails on my local host and want to get it to send emails for password retrieval (i.e. the “forgot your password” link). Password retrieval is built into Devise, it’s just a matter of configuring it properly to get the email to send.

In initializers/devise.rb, I put

config.mailer_sender = "[e-mail]" 

but when I tried to test the “forgot your password” link on Devise authentication for rails I got the error message below. If I do need to add other information for the email to actually send, what do I need to add and where??

In users model, these are the modules that are being used
devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
:recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable

— error message —
Errno::ECONNREFUSED in Devise::PasswordsController#create
Connection refused – connect(2)
Rails.root: /Users/myname/Sites/rails3d
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Request
Parameters:
{“utf8″=>”✓”,
“authenticity_token”=>”8oO5vXqO4esl3ztn5yE7OkVxZe+Ju94jj76rbKR225I=”,
“user”=>{“email”=>”myemail…@gmail.com”},
“commit”=>”Send me reset password instructions”}
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Answer 1

HAve you setup your mail settings in environments/development.rb

  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
     :address              => "smtp.gmail.com",
     :port                 => 587,
     :domain               => 'domain.com',
     :user_name            => '[e-mail]',
     :password             => 'password',
     :authentication       => :plain,
     :enable_starttls_auto => true  }