I would like to alter the Message-ID header that is in the header portion of an email sent from a Ruby on Rails v3 application using ActionMailer.
I am using Sendmail on localhost for mail delivery.
Do I configure this in Sendmail or ActionMailer?
Where do I configure this (if it is ActionMailer): a file in config/ folder or a file in app/mailers/ folder?
Teddy's answer is good, except that if you actually want each message to have a different ID, you need to make the default a lambda. In the first block of code in his answer, it calculates the message-ID once, at init, and uses the same one for every message.
Here's how I'm doing this in my app:
default "Message-ID" => lambda {"<#{SecureRandom.uuid}##{Rails.application.config.mailgun_domain}>"}
... with the domain taken from a custom app config variable (and using SecureRandom.uuid, which is a little more straightforward than a SHA-2 based on the timestamp IMO.)
I usually prefer generating the message-id with a UUID. Assuming you have the uuid gem:
headers['Message-ID'] = "<#{ UUID.generate }#example.com>"
Also you should note that according to RFC 2822 the message-id should be placed inside "<" and ">"
In Rails 4+ (or just Ruby 2.0+) the folowing syntax is working correctly:
default "Message-ID" => ->(v){"<#{Digest::SHA2.hexdigest(Time.now.to_i.to_s)}#yourdomain.com>"}
Tested this with MailCatcher.
I figured this out. The easiest way to do is to use the default method at the top of the mailer class file.
Example:
require 'digest/sha2'
class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
default "Message-ID"=>"#{Digest::SHA2.hexdigest(Time.now.to_i.to_s)}#yourdomain.com"
# ... the rest of your mailer class
end
However, I found this difficult to test, so I wrote a private method and used the sent_at time instead of Time.now:
def message_id_in_header(sent_at=Time.now)
headers["Message-ID"] = "#{Digest::SHA2.hexdigest(sent_at.to_i.to_s)}#yourdomain.com"
end
And I simply called that method before calling the mail method. This made it easy to pass a sent_at parameter from my test and verify a match in email.encoded.
#jasoncrawford is almost right. The problem is that the mailgun_domain attribute may not be able at development environment, so it is better to access the ActionMailer configs.
default "Message-ID" => lambda {"<#{SecureRandom.uuid}##{ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings[:domain]}>"}
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In my web2py web app, the controller function def index(): has the decorator #auth.requires_login().
For development and testing purpose I comment out this decorator. But I often forget to uncomment it before committing the code.
I would like to change this decorator into something that would test if a file is present (i.e. skipLogin) and if not to require login. I can then add the skipLogin file in my .gitignore file and don't need to worry about commenting and uncommenting the decorator line.
I suppose it should be something like #auth.requires(lambda: xxx) but I have no idea what xxx should be.
auth.requires takes a requires_login argument, so you can just set the condition to True, and then conditionally set the value of requires_login. For example, you can set it to require login for non-local requests:
#auth.requires(True, requires_login=not request.is_local)
Many simmilar Q/A on this topic here and there, but I was unable to find exact solution for my problem. Using Rails 3.0.9 now, and trying to upgrade existing older application(not Rails).
The goal is to send simple email to new clients created by admins.
Have been following this oficial guide (and many others), but with no success.
The issue is, that method(s) defined in this controller, from class 'UserMailer', aren`t recognised from another controller, while class 'UserMailer' itself recognised is(how do I know this, will be explained below):
/app/mailers/user_mailer.rb
class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
default :from => "info#xxxxx.sk"
def kokotina # << this is just a dummy method for testing
caf = "ssss"
end
def regMailUsr(nazov, priezvisko, email, pass)
#nazov = nazov
#priezvisko = priezvisko
#email = email
#pass = pass
#url = "http://loyalty2.xxxx.sk"
mail(to: email, subject: 'Vaša registrácia bola dokončená.')
end
end
I have also created View for this mail controller but that is not important right now.
The fragments from clients controller are here:
/app/controllers/clients_controller.rb
# encoding: UTF-8
class ClientsController < ApplicationController
load_and_authorize_resource
.......
def new
#noveHeslo = genHeslo(10) # << I defined this in application_controller.rb and it works
UserMailer.kokotina # << just a dummy method from UserMailer
#client = Client.new(params[:client])
.......
end
.......
def create
.......
if #client.save
#send email to new client:
UserMailer.regMailUsr(params[:client][:fname], params[:client][:lname], params[:client][:email], params[:client][:password]).deliver
.....
end ......
Now how do I know that my class is loaded? If in client controller, I change 'UserMailer' to 'xUserMailer', I will get 'no class or method in ...' error, but without 'x', I get only:
'undefined method `kokotina' for UserMailer:Class'
I also tried to define my methods in UserMailer:Class like this:
def self.kokotina # << this is just a dummy method for testing
caf = "ssss"
end
#or even like this
def self <<
def kokotina # << this is just a dummy method for testing
caf = "ssss"
end
end
#and then tried to invoke this method(s) like this:
UserMailer.new.kokotina
#or simply
kokotina
Strange is, that when I put contents of file '/app/mailers/user_mailer.rb' at the end of 'application_helper.rb' file, just after the end of 'module ApplicationHelper', I get no errors but of course, it won`t work.
Please keep in mind that I have no problem coding in another languages, but this mystic/kryptic rules of Ruby on Rails are still a complete mistery to me and unfortunatelly, I don`t have time or even motivation to read time extensive quides or even books for RoR beginners. I have been coding much more difficult applications and implementations, but this heavily discriminating system is driving me nuts.
Thank you all!
Problem solved!
The trick was, that in '/app/mailers/user_mailer.rb', I had multibyte characters. In mail subject.
So I added:
# encoding: UTF-8
at the very first line of '/app/mailers/user_mailer.rb'
I found this by total accident: later my rails app could not start, and server was simply throwing HTTP 500 error. So no trace, error defining etc.
I found out that multibyte string in:
mail(to: email, subject: 'Vaša registrácia bola dokončená.')
Was responsible for crash. When I removed that string, I noticed one important side effect: my methods became magicaly available for another controller!!!!
So if someone could give me at least one reason to lowe Rails...
I am implementing background email processing with Resque using the resque_mailer gem (https://github.com/zapnap/resque_mailer). I was able to get it to work for all my emails except the ones sent by Devise.
I went through a bunch of SO questions, and blog posts (for instance http://teeparham.posterous.com/send-devise-emails-with-resque) but could not find a way to get it to work.
What are the precise steps to follow to get resque_mailer to work with Devise?
I went through tee's answer and several resources online, but couldn't find a working solution.
After a few days of reading through resque-mailer and devise code, a solution that worked for me. Thanks to tee for gist which put me in right direction.
Assuming your app/mailers/application_mailer.rb looks similar to
class ApplicationMailer < ActionMailer::Base
include Resque::Mailer # This will add a `self.perform` class method, which we will overwrite in DeviseResqueMailer
end
In config/initializers/devise.rb
Devise.parent_mailer = "ApplicationMailer"
Devise.setup do |config|
config.mailer = 'DeviseResqueMailer'
end
In the resource class which uses devise, overwrite the send_devise_notification method to send resource class and id instead of object to prevent marshalling
# app/models/user.rb
protected
def send_devise_notification(notification, *args)
# Based on https://github.com/zapnap/resque_mailer/blob/64d2be9687e320de4295c1bd1b645f42bd547743/lib/resque_mailer.rb#L81
# Mailer may completely skip Resque::Mailer in certain cases - and will fail as we write custom handle in DeviseResqueMailer assuming mails are handled via resque
# So in those cases, don't retain original devise_mailer so things work properly
if ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries && Resque::Mailer.excluded_environments.exclude?(Rails.env.to_sym)
# Originally devise_mailer.send(notification, self, *args).deliver
# Modified to ensure devise mails are safely sent via resque
resource_id, resource_class = self.id, self.class.name
devise_mailer.send(notification, {resource_id: resource_id, resource_class: resource_class}, *args).deliver
else
super
end
end
Finally, in app/mailers/devise_resque_mailer.rb, fetch the record again from the database and continue
class DeviseResqueMailer < Devise::Mailer
def self.perform(action, *args)
# Hack to prevent RuntimeError - Could not find a valid mapping for admin.attributes
record_hash = args.shift
record = record_hash["resource_class"].constantize.find(record_hash["resource_id"])
args.unshift(record)
super # From resque-mailer
end
end
I feel this approach is a better than using devise-async as all the mails go through same code path. Its easier to control and overwrite if needed.
I'd take a look at devise-async. Looks like it fits your use case. Devise Async
I feel like this should be a simple problem, but I'm pulling my hair out trying to track it down. I'm installed the chargify_api_ares gem, but can't do even basic things such as
Chargify::Subscription.create
As I get this path error. I feel like this must be a gem issue somehow but don't know where to go from here.
UPDATE: bundle show chargify_api_ares shows the correct path, I just somehow can't access it. Still trying random environment related things.
Looks like this is the source of the problem, in active_resource\base.rb:
# Gets the \prefix for a resource's nested URL (e.g., <tt>prefix/collectionname/1.json</tt>)
# This method is regenerated at runtime based on what the \prefix is set to.
def prefix(options={})
default = site.path
default << '/' unless default[-1..-1] == '/'
# generate the actual method based on the current site path
self.prefix = default
prefix(options)
end
As I understand it, Chargify.subdomain should be setting the site.path, but I don't understand activeresource well enough yet to know what's happening and will continue to dig.
I too had the same issue.
I executed the following on the console
Chargify.configure do |c|
c.api_key = "<<api_key>>"
c.subdomain = "<<subdomain>>"
end
After that performing any Chargify console commands went through fine.
I am using Rails 3 and AJAX and have a parent object which is being created through and AJAX request. This parent is sent with children and saves them all. However, if a child has an error, Rails will stop the request. Is there any way to tell Rails to ignore this? I understand the proper thing to do is find the problem within the Javascript sending the request and fix it. However, for the sake of learning, is there a way to tell Rails that some errors might be ignorable?
To save without validating use:
#parent.save(:validate => false)
Also, don't forget you can create conditional validation rules if needs be. For example, add a virtual attribute (an instance variable that is not persisted to the DB) accessible via bare_bones?. Then modify a validator like so:
validates_presence_of :nickname, :unless => "bare_bones?"
Then, in your controller you would do something like this:
#parent = Parent.new params[:parent]
#parent.bare_bones = true
#parent.save()
Hope this helps.
You are looking for exception handling.
begin
#code that may contain errors
rescue
#what to do if an error is encountered
end