Setup: VPS with Ubuntu 12.04, Apache, PhusionPassenger, Rail 3.2.12, Postgresql
I want to send a confirmation mail with my app. In development mode everything works fine, the user receives a mail but in production I get this error (log):
Started POST "/newsletters" for 1XX.16X.30.XX at 2013-02-26 09:22:47 +0000
Processing by NewslettersController#create as HTML
Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"XXXXXXXXXXXXX=",
"newsletter"=>{"name"=>"Test", "email"=>"test@example.com"}, "commit"=>"Submit"}
Rendered newsletter_mailer/confirmation.text.erb (0.4ms)
Sent mail to test@example.com (44ms)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 134ms
Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2)):
app/controllers/newsletters_controller.rb:45:in `create'
So I guess, error should be in newsletters_controller.rb (line 45 is marked):
def create
@newsletter = Newsletter.new(params[:newsletter])
if @newsletter.save
NewsletterMailer.confirmation(@newsletter.email).deliver ### line 45
flash[:success] = 'It works!'
redirect_to root_path
else
flash[:error] = 'Error!'
render action: "new"
end
end
NewsletterMailer.rb
class NewsletterMailer < ActionMailer::Base
default from: "some@email.com"
def confirmation(email)
mail to: email,
subject: "Welcome"
end
end
Again, it works only in development but not in production. I also tried to change the database to Mysql2 but the same error occurs.
My database.yml:
production:
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
reconnect: false
database: app_production
pool: 5
username: user
password: secret
host: localhost
For mailing I use smtp with mandrill or gmail. Gmail-Settings work well in another app...
My environment.rb
# Load the rails application
require File.expand_path('../application', __FILE__)
# Initialize the rails application
LandingPage::Application.initialize!
LandingPage::Application.configure do
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.mandrillapp.com",
:port => 587, # or 25
:enable_starttls_auto => true, # detects and uses STARTTLS
:user_name => "user",
:password => "password",
:authentication => 'login' # Mandrill supports 'plain' or 'login'
}
end
UPDATE: I found out that the submits get saved in my index. So I guess the DB works.
Any advice? Thanks