Simplest way to send mail with Ruby on Rails

Question

What is the simplest way to send mail using Ruby on Rails? Is there a way to send mail directly via ruby and skip all the rails models and complexity, just like php's mail() function?

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

The simplest way in plain old ruby is to use net/smtp. However rails has it's own built in mailing facilities, because sending mail is something that is pretty common. The best way to do it in rails, is to use a Mailer model

Answer 2

Make sure you replace all the example.com's with real values:

require 'net/smtp'
Net::SMTP.start('smtp.example.com', 25) do |smtp|
  smtp.send_message "Subject: testing from ruby", '[email protected]', ['[email protected]', '[email protected]']
end

Answer 3

There's also TMail.