Writing on life, business, art & other random topics.

All of my long-form thoughts on tech, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.

Quick git add, commit, push, and deploy

Last week, I was preparing a presentation and found myself doing a lot of quick fixes and deployments to prepare a web application for a demonstration. I thought instead of running the following four commands each time:

Relay outbound SMTP email to Gmail

Sending emails with Rails via Gmail is a snap with Marc Chung’s excellent plugin action_mailer_tls. However sometimes our production environment isn’t using Gmail as a mail server and/or we just need an easy way to send email from our development environment for testing or demonstrating purposes.