Set up mandril with mail catcher in rails - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am using mandril with action mailer.
On my mandril config
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:port => '587',
:address => 'smtp.mandrillapp.com',
:user_name => ENV['MANDRILL_USERNAME'],
:password => ENV['MANDRILL_APIKEY'],
:domain => ENV['MANDRILL_DOMAIN'],
:authentication => :plain
}
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp
MandrillMailer.configure do |config|
config.api_key = ENV['MANDRILL_API_KEY']
end
Rails.application.config do |config|
config.mandrill_mailer.default_url_options = { host: ENV['DEFAULT_URL_HOST'] }
config.mandrill_mailer.default_url_options['protocol'] = ENV['DEFAULT_URL_PROTOCOL'] unless ENV['DEFAULT_URL_PROTOCOL'].blank?
end
On the action_mailer.rb
Rails.application.configure do
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: ENV['DEFAULT_URL_HOST'] }
config.action_mailer.default_url_options['protocol'] = ENV['DEFAULT_URL_PROTOCOL'] unless ENV['DEFAULT_URL_PROTOCOL'].blank?
end
On the development.rb
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { :address => "localhost", :port => 1025 }
I am running mail catcher and visiting http://localhost:1080/ but it doesn't work,
do I need to add more configurations ?

Answer 1

I'm using the default smpt_settings with mailcatcher in dev mode. so I didnt specify the
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = ..
at all.
But I have to launch mailcatcher in the foreground with
mailcatcher -f
for it to work (it's somehow buggy as deamon). This has the advantage, that you can see if it receives the mail requests.