Sending mail with Rails 3 in development environment

Question

I\'m sure this has been asked a million times before but I can\'t find anything that works for me so I\'m asking again!

I just need a way of sending emails using Act

Answer 1

My two pennies worth:

I had those exact same symptoms with Rails 5.1: Nothing happened, the settings in my development.rb file were utterly ignored...

Then I remembered to restart the machine! (which solved magically the issue)

This had been pointed out by a couple of previous comments.

The issue is tricky however because you do not expect this behavior. In my view, the default comments in development.rb are, in this respect, misleading:

# In the development environment your application's code is reloaded on
# every request. This slows down response time but is perfect for development
# since *you don't have to restart the web server when you make code changes*.