• Registered: 2012-03-02
  • Posts: 302

Topic: email problems

i have been trying to fallow the example of http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html

but i stll cant get ti to send mail form my local host


in my app/controllers/users_controller.rb
i have 

def create
    @user = User.new(params[:user])

    respond_to do |format|
      if @user.save
        UserMailer.welcome_email(@user).deliver
       
        format.html { redirect_to @user, :notice => 'User was successfully created.' }
        format.json { render :json => @user, :status => :created, :location => @user }
      else
        format.html { render :action => "new" }
        format.json { render :json => @user.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end
  end

on app/views/user_mailer/welcome_email.html.erb 

HELLO <%= @user.name %>

on app/models/user.rb 

class User < ActiveRecord::Base


  def welcome_email(user)
    @user = user
    @url  = "localhost"
    mail(:to => "mzaragoza@circletechfl.com",
      :subject => "Welcome to My Awesome Site",
      :template_path => 'notifications',
      :template_name => 'another')
  end
end