[PLUG-Devel] rails and sending email

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 21:06 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote:
> 
> On 9/19/07, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 22:49 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote:
>         > Aha! got it.
>         > my ActionMailer settings were in the wrong place, hence the
>         webrick
>         > error.
>         > I move them to th bottom (which some were in the |config|
>         loop), and 
>         > restarted webrick.
>         >
>         > Along with setting the cox smtp for sendmail, it now works.
>         >
>         > Many thanks to all, and especially Craig.
>         >
>         > on to unit testing,
>         ----
>         AWDWR for unit testing 
>         ----
>         >  db migration
>         ----
>         this is a must to get understanding of early in development
>         process.
>         Like Rails itself, it is harder to get going if you have some
>         legacy
>         database that you are trying to adapt to rails and pretty easy
>         to get 
>         going if you are starting from scratch.
>         ----
>         > , and Inversion of Control.
>         ----
>         inversion of control? Was that tongue in cheek?
>         
>         Actually, I already wrote to you but for the benefit of any
>         others on 
>         this list who might be interested in integrating subversion
>         with rails,
>         see
>         http://blog.teksol.info/articles/2006/03/09/subversion-primer-for-rails-projects
>         ----
>         >  I should then know all the basics for writing a rails app.
>         ----
>         yeah - it's that easy...  ;-)
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if you don't think Inversion of Control (Dependency
> Injection) applies to rails, but I've already read some from people
> who are using it to enable mocking in their unit tests.
> 
> Or maybe you thought I was talking about subversion source control... 
> 
> Either way, your tips are greatly appreciated. I will be referring to
> the svn article soon. I think unit testing and db migration are next
> up. I've just been throwing things around at this point, and don't
> have any significant db stuff. just two tables from example articles:
> people & phones tables.
> 
> I've gotten no less than 6 recommends for the Agile Rails book. I'll
> have to pick it up soon.
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Is it possible to change gmail to not send html format - at least to the
list?

Agile Web Development With Rails is the 'rails bible' - you don't start
doing anything on your own without working through that book - period.

Craig