Get environment settings in rails controller

Question

I have some email setting in development.rb which i want to access in my controller.

Settings in development.rb are:

config.notify_submited_transaction = '[email protected],[email protected]'
config.notify_approved_transaction = '[email protected]'

In my controller/action I am trying this:

  @to = Rails.env.notify_submited_transaction
  @subject = 'AM - Vendor Submitted Transaction'
  AmMailer.vendor_submited_transaction(@to, @subject, current_user).deliver

This though results in error:

  undefined method `notify_submited_transaction'

I am not sure how to get config value I've set.

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Just a sidenote: Rails.env is special string object, that allows you to get current environment (its not like Rack's env):

puts Rails.env # => "production"
puts Rails.env.test? # => false

It's not meant to return config settings.

This may come in handy when you want to put your custom settings under /config/initializers/*, and for clarity, it's a better way in some cases (it's recommended not to clutter rails environment files with your custom settings). For example:

# config/initializers/mailer_settings.rb
if Rails.env.production?
  ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
    :address              => "smtp.gmail.com",
    ...
  }
else
  #different settings
end

Answer 2

Try to access :

Rails.application.config.notify_submited_transaction
Rails.application.config.notify_approved_transaction

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