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336 CHAPTER 12 Sending email
Listing 12.12 features/gmail.feature
Scenario: Receiving a real-world email
Given I am signed in as "alice@ticketee.com"
Given I am on the homepage
When I follow "TextMate 2"
And I follow "Release date"
And I fill in "Text" with "Posting a comment!"
And I press "Create Comment"
Then I should see "Comment has been created."
When I log into gmail with:
| username | password |
| youraccount@gmail.com | your_password |
Then there should be an email from Ticketee in my inbox
When you run this feature using bin/cucumber features/gmail.feature, you see that
your feature fails when alice@ticketee.com clicks the Create Comment button:
And I press "Create Comment"
Connection refused - connect(2) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)
.../net/smtp.rb:551:in `initialize'
Remember before how it was mentioned that Action Mailer would (by default) try to
connect to an SMTP server running on localhost? That’s what is happening here,
because when a comment is updated a notification will be sent out. You didn’t see
this previously because it’s only now that you’ve switched delivery_method to :smtp,
You don’t have one running locally 12 so it’s unable to connect. You can tell that it’s
now using SMTP, because the first line of the stacktrace points to net/smtp.rb in
Ruby’s standard library, which is what Action Mailer (by way of Mail) uses to connect
to SMTP servers. Therefore, you must change something in order to make this work
once more.
12.3.2 Configuring Action Mailer
To fix this error, you must tell Action Mailer to connect to your Gmail server so that it
has a way to send out emails. You can create a new file in config/initializers that provides
Action Mailer with the necessary information it needs. But what would this information
be? Well, let’s hop on over to Google’s “Configuring other mail clients” 13 page,
where you’ll see the table from figure 12.9.
You’re trying to send email, so you want to use the Outgoing Mail section, which
tells you to use smtp.gmail.com as the server. You’ll connect to it using TLS, so you’ll
connect on port 587. The account name and password should be the Gmail address
and password for your email address. With these settings, create a config/initializers/
mail.rb file that looks like the following listing.
12 Unless you’ve got it set up from some other place that’s not this book.
13 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287.