Using Devise and SendGrid to send confirmation email on rails app

#rails #devise #sendgrid #ruby

First make normal rails app with devise user model

$ rails new awesome-app This will create new app
$ cd awesome-app It will change the directory to our new project

Setup Gemfile

Add gem 'devise' and gem 'sendgrid-ruby' to the Gemfile
finally run $ bundle install on terminal

Setup devise

$ rails generate devise:install it will create config/initializers/devise.rb and config/locales/devise.en.yml file and follow the instruction generated by above command
Now generate devise user model with $ rails generate devise User

then go to app/models/user.rb and make this file look like this:

class User < ApplicationRecord
 # Include default devise modules. Others available are:
 # :confirmable, :lockable, :timeoutable, :trackable and :omniauthable
 devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
        :recoverable, :rememberable, :validatable, :confirmable

Uncomment the Confirmable section of migration file located on the app/db/migrate

class DeviseCreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration[7.0]
  def change
    create_table :users do |t|
      ## Database authenticatable
      t.string :email,              null: false, default: ""
      t.string :encrypted_password, null: false, default: ""

      ## Recoverable
      t.string   :reset_password_token
      t.datetime :reset_password_sent_at

      ## Rememberable
      t.datetime :remember_created_at

      ## Trackable
      # t.integer  :sign_in_count, default: 0, null: false
      # t.datetime :current_sign_in_at
      # t.datetime :last_sign_in_at
      # t.string   :current_sign_in_ip
      # t.string   :last_sign_in_ip

      # Confirmable
      t.string   :confirmation_token
      t.datetime :confirmed_at
      t.datetime :confirmation_sent_at
      t.string   :unconfirmed_email # Only if using reconfirmable

      ## Lockable
      # t.integer  :failed_attempts, default: 0, null: false # Only if lock strategy is :failed_attempts
      # t.string   :unlock_token # Only if unlock strategy is :email or :both
      # t.datetime :locked_at

      t.timestamps null: false
    end

    add_index :users, :email,                unique: true
    add_index :users, :reset_password_token, unique: true
    add_index :users, :confirmation_token,   unique: true
    # add_index :users, :unlock_token,         unique: true
  end
end

Then run $ rails db:migrate

Set up SendGrid

Create account on SendGrid
Set up a sender identity on SendGrid by clicking this link: https://app.sendgrid.com/settings/sender_auth/senders
Create your API key by following this link: https://app.sendgrid.com/settings/api_keys
add gem 'dotenv-rails' on development and test group on gem file and run $ bundle install
create .env file in your project root and add following line inside it SENDGRID_API_KEY = 'YOUR API KEY'
Then, modify this Devise config to use your SendGrid sender identity:

# config/initializers/devise.rb
config.mailer_sender = 'please-change-me-at-config-initializers-devise@example.com'

Set up Action Mailer

create config/initializers/action_mailer.rb file and add following code

 # config/initializers/action_mailer.rb
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
    user_name: "apikey",
    password: ENV['SENDGRID_API_KEY'],
    domain: "your-domain.com",
    address: "smtp.sendgrid.net",
    port: 587,
    authentication: :plain,
    enable_starttls_auto: true
}