This guide is a continuation of How to deploy a Rails app using Digital Ocean and will walk through how to SendGrid on your Rails application.
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Choose SMPT Relay setup. Enter a name for your api key myapp-prd.
config/environment.rb# Load the Rails application.
require_relative 'application'
# Initialize the Rails application.
Rails.application.initialize!
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:user_name => 'apikey',
:password => Rails.application.secrets.sendgrid_api_key,
:domain => 'myapp.com',
:address => 'smtp.sendgrid.net',
:port => 465,
:authentication => :plain,
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
config/secrets.ymlPaste your API key into your development config/secrets.yml. Make sure to not check this into Git / your code repository.
development:
secret_key_base: [myapp-dev]
sendgrid_api_key: [sendgrid-myapp-dev]
SSH into your server deploy@ip_address.
$ sudo nano myapp/shared/config/secrets.yml
Paste in your API key, save and exit
production:
secret_key_base: [myapp-prd]
sendgrid_api_key: [sendgrid-myapp-prd]
config/environments/production.rb and config/environments/development.rbAdd these two lines to the bottom of your environment files to use smtp
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: 'myapp.com' }
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp