Email preview in production in rails 4

[Hristo Peev]

Hello,

I am using rails 4.1.1 and ActionMailer::Preview. In development environment everything is working excellent.

But in production environment the preview routes are not accessible. I store the previews in test/mailers/previews/
Is is possible to enable them for production?

Thanks!

[jbar]

Did you ever find a solution? I'm looking to do the same thing.

[Hristo Peev]

Hi, 

I have a clue, but I haven't tested it yet.

Try to add the routes in your routes.rb file manually.

If you have a chance to test this, please, write a line about the results.

Thanks!

[Harshvardhan Parihar]

Did u get the solution for this issue.

[Hristo Peev]

Hi, 

I have a clue, but I haven't tested it yet.

Try to add the routes in your routes.rb file manually.

If you have a chance to test this, please, write a line about the results.

Thanks!

[Mike]

You should not really do this as the whole point of the production environment is to be live and sending mails

The content should not be different to your test or development environment so I am not sure what issue you think you are having

However if you want to do this, then I would suggest something like the mailcatcher gem and temporarily reset your production SMTP settings to use that, however as I said above there should be no need to do this assuming you have tested your app previously

Obviously if you reset your SMTP settings to use mailcatcher then no one will receive any live email from your app

[Michael Johnston]

This is how I did it. For those having trouble imagining the use case, it was so the client who pays for the app could easily review the many mails the app sends.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27453578/rails-4-email-preview-in-production/39399116#39399116

##production.rb

    MyApp::Application.configure do

      config.action_mailer.preview_path ||= defined?(Rails.root) ? "#{Rails.root}/spec/mailer_previews" : nil

      config.autoload_paths += [config.action_mailer.preview_path]

      routes.append do

        get '/rails/mailers'         => "rails/mailers#index"

        get '/rails/mailers/*path'   => "rails/mailers#preview"

      end

    end

    class ::Rails::MailersController

      before_filter :authenticate_admin!

      def local_request?

        true

      end

      private

      def authenticate_admin!

        ...

      end

    end

[Michael Johnston]

On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 4:36:43 AM UTC-7, Mike wrote:

You should not really do this as the whole point of the production environment is to be live and sending mails

It's been a year so perhaps your imagination or experience has expanded, but in case not how about this perfectly legitimate use case: the client who contracted the development of the app would like to be able to view the various mails that the app sends.