ar_sendmail command not working with ruby 1.9.2 - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am not able to run ar_sendmail command from my terminal. I don't think i have missed its configuration. Below is my code;
development.rb
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ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :activerecord
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 25,
:domain => "www.google.com",
:authentication => :plain,
:user_name => "ashis.lun#gmail.com",
:password => "kathmandu",
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
require "action_mailer/ar_mailer"
Gemfile
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gem "ar_mailer", "1.5.1"
My Mailer
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class Postoffice &lt ActionMailer::ARMailer
def recover_password_email(account, name, address)
#recipients = address
#from = "ashis.lun#gmail.com"
#subject = "Your Account at #{account.org_name} is Ready"
#body["subdomain"] = account.subdomain
#body["name"] = name
#body["org_name"] = account.org_name
#body["password"] = password
#body["email"] = address
end
end
My controller
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def reset_password
#user = User.find_by_email(params[:email])
begin
if #user
password = get_new_password
#user.update_attributes!(:password => password)
Postoffice.deliver_recover_password_email(#account, #user.individual.firstname, #user.email, password)
flash[:notice] = "Your password has been e-mailed to you. It should show up in a minute!"
redirect_to '/sessions/new'
end
rescue
flash[:notice] = "Sorry, there was a problem resetting your password."
redirect_to '/sessions/new'
end
end
end
Whenever I run ar_sendmail command I just get below message. If i hit RAILS_ROOT in console then I it shows /Users/me/Dev/a5his
Usage: ar_sendmail [options]
ar_sendmail scans the email table for new messages and sends them to the
website's configured SMTP host.
ar_sendmail must be run from a Rails application's root or have it specified
with --chdir.
If ar_sendmail is started with --pid-file, it will fail to start if the PID
file already exists or the contents don't match it's PID.
Sendmail options:
-b, --batch-size BATCH_SIZE Maximum number of emails to send per delay
Default: Deliver all available emails
--delay DELAY Delay between checks for new mail
in the database
Default: 60
--max-age MAX_AGE Maxmimum age for an email. After this
it will be removed from the queue.
Set to 0 to disable queue cleanup.
Default: 604800 seconds
-o, --once Only check for new mail and deliver once
Default: false
-p, --pid-file [PATH] File to store the pid in.
Defaults to /var/run/ar_sendmail.pid
when no path is given
-d, --daemonize Run as a daemon process
Default: false
--mailq Display a list of emails waiting to be sent
Setup Options:
--create-migration Prints a migration to add an Email table
to stdout
--create-model Prints a model for an Email ActiveRecord
object to stdout
Generic Options:
-c, --chdir PATH Use PATH for the application path
Default: .
-e, --environment RAILS_ENV Set the RAILS_ENV constant
Default:
-t, --table-name TABLE_NAME Name of table holding emails
Used for both sendmail and
migration creation
Default: Email
-v, --[no-]verbose Be verbose
Default:
-h, --help You're looking at it
ar_sendmail must be run from a Rails application's root to deliver email.
/Users/me/Dev/a5his does not appear to be a Rails application root.
Thanks in advance <><

Answer 1

How about using Delayed Job? I've used ar mailer in the past and find delayed job a much better solution.
https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job

Answer 2

Not sure if it'll make a difference, but it says here to put
require "action_mailer/ar_mailer"
in environment.rb, not development.rb or production.rb. Other than that, I can't see anything you missed.

Answer 3

Try ar_sendmail --chdir /Users/me/Dev/a5his or changing into the root of your rails app before running the command

Answer 4

ar_sendmail must be run from a Rails application's root to deliver email.
/Users/me/Dev/a5his does not appear to be a Rails application root.
Are you running the command in the application's root?

Answer 5

try
cd #{Rails.root.to_s} && bundle exec ar_sendmail_rails3 -e production

Answer 6

If you look at the source (shown below), this message is displayed if loading config/environment fails. One instance of this I ran into was where a dependency was unmet, which was causing an exception to fire when config/environment was being loaded. To address this, you can use an irb session and try requiring config/environment to see what error may be causing the require to fail.
Dir.chdir options[:Chdir] do
begin
require 'config/environment'
rescue LoadError
usage opts, <<-EOF
#{name} must be run from a Rails application's root to deliver email.
#{Dir.pwd} does not appear to be a Rails application root.
EOF
end
end