Sending Email in Production

Sending Email in Production Checklist

• Create repo on GitHub & push up changes
• Create/Deploy app on Heroku

Heroku & Sendgrid

• Go to SendGrid to create an API Key for your project. You may also need to create an account if you do not have one.
• In Heroku, go to Settings for the project and in the Config Vars section click Reveal Config Vars
• Add the api key to the Config Vars
  • Key: SENDGRID_API_KEY
  • Value: sendgrid-generated-api-key

Configuration in Project

• Open config/envrionments/production.rb to add ActionMailer Configuration

• Add the following code inside of Rails.application.configure do ... end block ruby config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { domain: 'YOUR_HEROKU_DOMAIN.COM', address: "smtp.sendgrid.net", port: 587, authentication: :plain, user_name: 'apikey', password: ENV['SENDGRID_API_KEY'] } Note: If you want more info on action_mailer.smtp_settings look at these docs

• Save changes
• Push to GitHub
• Deploy changes to Heroku