Cameron Stitt

Hi all! It’s been a while since I have posted as I have been on holidays and have been rather lazy! This post is going to explain the arduous task of deploying your Ruby on Rails application in as much depth as possible to make your lives easier. It took me quite a few days to get this going, however now that I have done it once it is going to be a simple task to deploy other applications.
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Last week I covered two topics, Emailing in Ruby on Rails and also Uploading Documents in Ruby on Rails using the attachment_fu plugin. This post will join them both together to teach you how to add attachments to emails. It is important that you read the first to posts before continuing.
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The following post will cover the method of uploading documents in Ruby on Rails. When I was initially looking into doing this I could only find tutorials that covered the uploading of images. Eventually I found the attachment_fu plugin that allowed for uploading of multiple file types. Firstly, we will need to install the plugin (windows users read this first).

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Although there are a number of good examples of how to send email through Ruby on Rails, I thought I would cover it so that any future topics on emailing have a reference point.

Our first step is to change some settings in the development environment. For the purpose of this tutorial we are going to use smtp settings for the setup.

# config/environments/development.rb
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
  :address        => 'smtp.yourdomain.com',
  :port           => 25,
  :domain         => 'www.yourdomain.com',
  :authentication => :login,
  :user_name      => 'username',
  :password       => 'password'
}

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