Rails ActionMailer w/ Devise + Google Apps in Development Mode

Question

I'm trying to configure ActionMailer to send mail from Devise in development mode with my Google Apps account. I've added the following to my config/environments/development.rb file, but it looks like mail is not being sent. Note: this is for Google Apps, not Gmail (but the Gmail servers should work -- they do in my mail client).

Anything jump out as strange in my config?

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp

  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
    :enable_starttls_auto => true,
    :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
    :port => 587,
    :domain => "mydomain.com",
    :authentication => :login,
    :user_name => "myemaiL@mydomain.com",
    :password => "mypass"
  }

Answer 1

We're using all the same settings successfully with our Google Apps account (and Devise) -- the only difference is that we're using "plain" for :authentication.

A slight difference -- we're using this in production and sort of on our staging environment (there we send email, but all to a test email address rather than to users). On development we just look in the rails log to debug emails...

But one thing you might check: I was testing using GMail on a macbook that had been set up with MacPorts, but with ruby/rails and other stuff set up using rvm and Homebrew and was getting SSL exceptions in this environment -- when I set :enable_starttls_auto => false the error stopped, but no mail was sent. I think there was a conflict between the libraries installed by MacPorts and the ones used by Rails.

Not sure if that helps :-)