Question

sometimes when I am developing, I do not have an internet connection. This results in an error wherever my app is supposed to send an email:

getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

Is there a simple and quick way where i can change a config value to make ActionMailer just not try to actually send out an email and not throw an error? Maybe something thats scoped to the development environment. Or some other way I can avoid the error being thrown and my code passing wherever I call the actionmailer deliver?

I’m using Rails 3.1

Answer 1

It’s common practice to just let Rails ignore the mail errors. In your config/environments/development.rb file add, uncomment or modify:

# Don't care if the mailer can't send
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false

You can also set this:

config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = false

See the documentation here http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#action-mailer-configuration

You can also set the delivery method to :test, but I have not actually tried that

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :test