justin
October 16, 2014, 11:57pm
1
For an unknown reason, I had trouble with MailCatcher after I updated to Ruby 2.1.3.
I would only get a 10% of the mail messages in the mailcatcher window. This was absolutely maddening.
At the time of this article, Mailcatcher, v0.5.12, had not been updated since May 29, 2013. So I did the following to get the pre-release version of MailCatcher:
Get the source code
git clone git@github.com:sj26/mailcatcher.git
Cd to the mailcatcher directory
cd mailcatcher
Run bundle
bundle install
Build the gem:
rake package
Uninstall the gem wherever it’s already installed. This is really important as your gemset versions of MailCatcher will override a system version, which we’ll install in a few steps.
gem uninstall mailcatcher
gem uninstall -i /Users/$USER/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3@global mailcatcher
Install the gem you built
gem install mailcatcher-0.6.0.gem
Put a rvm wrapper on it (change ruby version if you need to):
rvm wrapper ruby-2.1.3@mailcatcher --no-prefix mailcatcher catchmail
Verify that you’re getting this version:
type mailcatcher
Run mailcatcher like this to clearly see that it’s working. -v => verbose, -f => foreground, -b => open browser
mailcatcher -v -f -b
Prosper!
Note: My issue with inconsistent email might have been that my Mac needed restarting. Argh…
gondo
October 17, 2014, 12:55pm
2
thanks for the effort, however it doesnt work for me.
cd mailcatcher
after trying:
rake package --trace
im getting this:
rake aborted!require' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in require’<top (required)>' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rake/rake_module.rb:25:in load’load_rakefile' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rake/application.rb:637:in raw_load_rakefile’block in load_rakefile' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rake/application.rb:165:in standard_exception_handling’load_rakefile' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rake/application.rb:77:in block in run’standard_exception_handling' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rake/application.rb:75:in run’
any idea how to fix this?
Sbfrr
November 27, 2014, 12:11pm
4
rake package
was not working for me. I was also getting
cannot load such file -- mail_catcher/version
with the exact same trace. I finally got it working by using
gem build mailcatcher.gemspec instead of rake package .
then everything else was ok. Thanks for helping.
justin
November 27, 2014, 5:40pm
5
Thanks for letting us know in case somebody else runs into that issue. I wonder why you’d have to do a specific gem build. I’ve never done that.
Sbfrr
November 27, 2014, 6:30pm
6
It seems that it’s pretty similar since the build method from Gem::Package is called inside the rake task (see below). However the rake task uses an asset task as argument which may cause an issue when compiling the assets. It’s actually what was causing the issue on my computer.
source code from here
desc "Package as Gem"
task "package" => ["assets"] do
require "rubygems/package"
require "rubygems/specification"
spec_file = File.expand_path("../mailcatcher.gemspec", __FILE__)
spec = Gem::Specification.load(spec_file)
Gem::Package.build spec
end
desc "Compile assets"
task "assets" do
compiled_path = File.expand_path("../public/assets", __FILE__)
FileUtils.mkdir_p(compiled_path)
require "mail_catcher/web/assets"
sprockets = MailCatcher::Web::Assets
sprockets.css_compressor = :sass
sprockets.js_compressor = :uglifier
sprockets.each_logical_path(/(\Amailcatcher\.(js|css)|\.(xsl|png)\Z)/) do |logical_path|
if asset = sprockets.find_asset(logical_path)
target = File.join(compiled_path, logical_path)
asset.write_to target
end
end
end