Learn Rails 5.2: Accelerated Web Development with Ruby on Rails

© Stefan Wintermeyer 2018

Stefan WintermeyerLearn Rails 5.2https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3489-1_11

11. Action Mailer

Stefan Wintermeyer¹ 

(1)

Bochum, Germany

 

Even if you mainly use Ruby on Rails to generate web pages, it sometimes is useful to be able to send an e-mail.

So, let’s build an example with minimal user management for a web shop that automatically sends an e-mail to the user when a new user is created, as shown here:

$ rails new webshop

  [...]

$ cd webshop

$ rails generate scaffold User name email

  [...]

$ rails db:migrate

  [...]

For the user model, create a minimal validation in app/models/user.rb so that you can be sure that each user has a name and a syntactically correct e-mail address (see Listing 11-1).

class User < ApplicationRecord ...